Ahwahnechee
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The Ahwahnechee, Awani, or Awalache were an Indigenous people of California who historically lived in the Yosemite Valley. They were a band of Mono and Miwok People.
Painting of a "Mariposa Indian Encampment, Yosemite Valley, California" by Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1872
Replica of a cedar bark umuucha in Yosemite Valley
Chief George Dick, a Yosemite Paiute
Plains and Sierra Miwok
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The Plains and Sierra Miwok were once the largest group of California Indian Miwok people, Indigenous to California. Their homeland included regions of the Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley, and t
Ahwahnechee
…The Ahwahnechee, Awani, or Awalache were an Indigenous people of California who historically lived in the Yosemite Valley. They were a band of Mono and Miwok People. The Awani people's heritage can be found all over Yosemite National Park…
A basket woven by Miwok-Mono Paiute Native American artist Lucy Telles from the Yosemite Valley region
Miwok-Paiute ceremony in 1872 at current site of Yosemite Lodge in Yosemite Valley