According to Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernal_Fall,
Yan-o-pah means “little cloud”.

Ron Peters

Even though those non-Indians who tried to transcribe the meaning of Pohono, which they describe as “Spirit of the Puffing Wind”, it really meant “Spirit of the Blowing Mist, which is evil” in Paiute. In our language Poohe’yoo is “to blow” and Pooha’a is “to curse”.

We Yosemite Indians in olden times were afraid of the Pohono Falls or Bridal Veil. We would try to stay away from them in early times and would walk quickly by it. The falls were the home of the Lady of the Misty Waters, a spirit that was evil.

One of our people did a great write up about the Pohono Falls legend and myth. Which they re-called when watching the movie “The Lady of the Water”.

http://thehive.modbee.com/?q=node/1743

If you go back there and during the right light you can see the faces in the rocks. We Paiutes believe everything has a spirit and a life, good or bad.

On this page they try to focus on the tale and faces in the rocks.

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One of our people put this web blog of Eadweard Muybridge photos using their numerical sequence and came up with quite a surprise. You can see how Muybridge walked around the village taking photos.

Muybridge even took one of German painter Albert Bierstadt. the great early Yosemite painter, who was in the Paiute camp.

Sorry for the quality of the photos, but my friend had to lessen the properties for quicker viewing for people who have dail-up. You understand that when you do great photos like yours, sometimes you have to lessen the qualities to for the internet.

Here are some of the earliest photos of Paiutes in Yosemite, that are seldom seen;

http://www.yosemitecampers.com/discus/messages/29/2150.html?1145602942

Photos by Anthony, Reilly, Soule, Boysen and Watkins. Some of the most well known Yosemite photographers.

There photos documented early American Indian life in Yosemite. It amazes me how they captured every day simple life of Native Americans in Yosemite. I wish I knew all the names of everyone in those old photos. I know quite a few, but in those large groupings it is hard to tell.

I do know Captain John, Captain Jim, Captain Sam, Bridgeport Tom, Tom Hutchings, the Sabes, Maggie “Taboose” Howard, Mary Leonard, John Wilson, Sadie McGowan, Leanna Tom, Charlie Dick and other Paiutes are in many of those photos.

We really appreacite the early photographers work in documenting Yosemite Indians. Many of their descendents are alive today to see their ancestors because of these photographers.

Here are early photos of Hetch Hetchy, with early accounts of our people in the Valley;

http://thehive.modbee.com/?q=node/180

Sorry, I am not a Miwok, but a Yosemite Mono Paiute. You see the Paiutes were the original people of Yosemite, Hetch Hetchy and Mono Lake. The Miwoks of the lower foothills were the ones who worked for James Savage or Jim Savage. That is one of the sad parts of history that people don’t know that the real people of Yosemite were actually Paiutes.

Dr. Lafayette H. Bunnell was the only person to meet and write about Chief Tenaya and his band. No other person, besides one embedded reporter, met and wrote about Chief Tenaya.

Here is the book on PDF file. You can actually download it and the truth will quickly appear.

http://esnips.com/web/YosemiteIndiansWebResearch

If you follow the instructions on this webpage after you download the book on pdf people can see this is the truth. Type in those few words and than read what comes up…yes, Mono Paiute.

Sadly Chief Bautista or Vow-chester was the chief of the Southern Sierra Miwuks at that time. He was the overseer for Jim Savage for his gold mines. They were also the scouts for Savage and the Mariposa Battalion. The leader of the Battalion noted that without their help they would never have found Chief Tenaya and his people. They had blocked his path when he and his people tried to escape to Mono Lake.

Great photos though.