Yosemite Natives - Yosemite Park excavation - 2002 Part 3

Part 3, in the year 2002 Yosemite National Park was excavating around the Lower Yosemite Falls. This is the same spot that one of Chief Tenaya's villages was located.

They did this not for research but to put a new toilet over the old site for tourists.

When the Park Service was excavating a group of Yosemite area Native Americans came upon the digging and were surprised. It seems that their own supposed tribal leaders from the Southern Sierra Miwuks did not tell them about this project. Interestingly many of the group did not know the Indian monitor, whose name was Chris Brochini, was part of the Southern Sierra Miwuk group. You can tell because some asked who he was, what his connect to Yosemite National Park was, and what his last name was. They didn't recognize him or the Brochini name at that time and that was in 2002.

Most of the time it appears that the Indian monitor was not even paying any attention to the excavation done by the Park.

I believe they were not following correct NAGPRA protocol. Many Paiute people object to non-profits being used to dig up our ancestors. Most of the earliest Indians of Yosemite were Paiute people and not Miwoks. So why would they have only a Miwok Indian monitor?

We believe that the Southern Sierra Miwuk aka the American Indian Council of Mariposa should at least have consulted with its members first before they ok'd this project. There appeared to be NO communication at all and that is why the Yosemite Indian people were surprised when they approached the site.

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[YosemiteNative]

Your comments are non sense, I suggest you read the First Discovery of Yosemite where Chapter 18 states Tenaya was a Mono Lake Paiute, born at Mono Lake and took 300 Mono Lake Paiutes into Yosemite Valley and created the Pah Ute Colony of Ahwahnee!

I heard from the Council your sniveling now.

Dont claim to know what your speaking about if you can not site a source.

[TheBulian1]

Wow. This is supposed to be a conservation area? What is with all the buses full of people then? I don't think tourism and conservation should go hand in hand. Just another one of millions of examples how the government doesn't care about the native people, and further more, how PEOPLE don't care about the natives.

[travelthrutime]

Maybe the Indian monitor didn't appear to be paying attention because you were talking to him, .

The assumption you make and state as fact, that Piutes were the original Yosemite Indians, is nonsense. It doesn't matter how many times you whine and snivel it still does not make it so.

Oh, Yooo-hooo...your agenda is showing!