Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity: Their History, Customs and Traditions
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity: Their History, Customs and Traditions
                                            
                            By Galen Clark
                            
                                23 Jan, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Excerpt........During the past few years a rapidly growing interest in the native Indians has been manifested by a large majority of visitors to the Yosemite Valley. They have evinced a great desire to see them in their rudely constructed summer camp
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                                                Excerpt........During the past few years a rapidly growing interest in the native Indians has been manifested by a large majority of visitors to the Yosemite Valley. They have evinced a great desire to see them in their rudely constructed summer camps, and to purchase some articles of their artistic basket and beadwork, to take away as highly prized souvenirs.
They are also anxious to learn something of their former modes of life, habits and domestic industries, before their original tribal relations were ruthlessly broken up by the sudden advent of the white population of gold miners and others in 1850, and the subsequent war, in which the Indians were defeated, and, as a result, nearly exterminated. Less