Showing posts with label Yosemite valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yosemite valley. Show all posts

Friday, February 10, 2017

California Native Americans in the Yosemite Valley

California Native Americans in the Yosemite Valley



                                                                           Digger Indians

These tribes, including the Yosemites, were all somewhat affiliated by common ancestry or by intermarriage, and were similar in their general characteristics and customs. They were all called by the early California settlers, "Digger Indians," as a term of derision, on account of their not being good fighters, and from their practice of digging the tuberous roots of certain plants, for food.