Author: GODFREY, ELIZABETH
Title: Yosemite Indians
Description: Yosemite National Park, CA: Yosemite Assn, 1977. Revised Edition. Stapled wraps. ISBN: 0939666219. Ex-Library. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized booklet with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. This is an ex-school library copy. The booklet is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet covers have some light bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners. There is some light fading to the spine of the booklet. There are library stickers on the rear cover and also on the rear inside cover jacket of the booklet. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Ahwahnechee, Awani, or Awalache were an Indigenous people of California who historically lived in the Yosemite Valley. They were a band of Miwok people, specifically Southern Sierra Miwok...The Awani lived in Yosemite Valley for centuries. It is believed that they may have lived in the area for as long as 7,000 years. According to NPS historians, they were primarily Southern Miwok, with related Miwok tribes living North and South and West. They routinely traded with both Paiute and Mono tribes across the mountains to the east, and intermarried with those people." (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

Keywords: 0939666219 Native Americans Elizabeth Godfrey Californiana Yosemite The Ahwahneechee Indians Miwok Indians


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