Was going to upload past clip of Bobcat...tried, but upload taking too long...will try again sometime...I have a bunch from Bobcat Meadow day!...pic is one of several too.....paddled over to the Rocky Slope...this after putting the key in the Bus and starting it up!...it runs, this after sitting all winter, but not strong enough to get out of the Valley!...tomorrow the tow truck comes to take it to town for fixing...but to today's walk....just as the Trail to Upper Falls starts at Lower Falls, where there's a fallen log with section sawed out , I happened to look down while chasing after two Flickers...and found a boulder, mostly buried, with grinding holes..it's not far from the Grinding Stone Boulder...clips of the Flickers...but they were too quick going through the Tree Tops....reporting the Grinding Stone in an evening talkabout, I heard the story of the little cabins the Indians lived in at Lower Falls...thought to search this out...brb...
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Seven designated archeological sites lie within the Lower Yosemite Fall area. These include sites associated with the American Indian habitation of the Valley, early Euro-American homesteads, a concessioner warehouse complex, a sawmill operated by John Muir, and an early concessioner tourist camp (Camp Lost Arrow). Each of these seven recorded sites is described in the following sections.
Site CA-Mrp-58. Site CA-Mrp-58 is the Yosemite Falls Indian Caves, which consist of a series of meandering fissures (cracks) between boulders. A single boulder with three mortar cups (a depression in the rock formed from pounding acorn) situated beneath the overhang of a larger boulder occurs at the site.
Because no subsurface investigation has been conducted at this site, it is unknown whether cultural deposits occur within the Lower Yosemite Fall area. Lacking such data, it is assumed herein that the site, located immediately adjacent to the western trail to the base of Lower Yosemite Fall, is within the Lower Yosemite Fall area boundary.
Site CA-Mrp-240/303/H. Site CA-Mrp-240/303/H is located directly west of Yosemite Creek and north of Yosemite Lodge in the Lower Yosemite Fall area. Seven stationary milling features (large stones or bedrock used for the processing or milling of foods) with a total of 63 mortar cups and three milling slicks (smooth parts of a stone where grains were milled) have been recorded at Site CA-Mrp-240/303/H, while sparsely scattered obsidian tools and debris are apparent on the surface and below the surface (Hull et al. 1998).
Ethnographic studies have suggested that Site CA-Mrp-240/303/H represents at least a portion of the former American Indian village of Koom-I-ne (Bibby 1994). Furthermore, this site has been the location of historic Euro-American activities, in particular the establishment of Camp Yosemite by the U.S. Cavalry in this area in 1906. Early topographic maps indicate the location of six buildings along the old road to the main bridge (Yosemite Falls Bridge), and these dwellings were apparently known as "Soapsuds Row." Old Yosemite Lodge was constructed near the Site CA-Mrp-240/303/H area in 1915 (Hull et al. 1998).
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After an appeal, Tenaya returned to Yosemite and died there, a free man. Tenaya's descendants received allotments for the acreage of the village site, and by 1930, they were living in 15 cabins provided for them by the National Park Service. When the park service decided to expand the Sunnyside Campground, the villagers had to move to other quarters. In the 1960's the Ahwahneecheeswere still carying on their traditional ceremonies, dances, and food collecting. Women were collecting and grinding acorns, and making willow and sedge baskets. Mrs. Julia Parker, a Pomo Indian who married a Yosemite Miwok, says that the village is the people's link to the old life.
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That's a nice site!...Lots of things...
Julia, I believe, is the Basket Maker under the umbrella!
at same site page above
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Yosemite Miwok went to court to hold onto their land. But, the NPS used the power and force of arms to drive Indian residents out of their homes, house by house. NPS officials destroyed the remaining homes of the Yosemite Miwok during a fire-fighting drill in 1969.
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Well, that confirms the story I heard at this evening's talkabout...the Indians little cabins were burned down. They were along the Trail that I walk on the Rocky Slope walks to Camp 4, Sunnyside...the Grinding Stone I found is very close to where Rocky Slope Bear was eating the termites, and playing with Oak Bear....(along with Fir Bear, these Three Bears have my attention!!)
sunny blue warm...report of Coyote by Day Use Parking...and Osprey nests at some lakes near Hornitos...and Mergansers in the Merced near El Portal!...expect the Mergansers to be hereabouts soon!!
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