Today the Indian Land Tenure Foundation posted a link from Indian Country Today on Facebook reminding folks about who lived in what is now called Yosemite. I made this comment:
“first ‘found’ in 1851 by whites doing a military operation against native peoples in the context of the genocidal ‘gold rush; then the native Ahwahneechee become squatters on their own land in 1890. what does that mean for how i feel about yosemite?”
If you haven’t read ‘Conservation refugees‘ by Mark Dowie, do it now, for Yosemite, for the Ahwahneechee, for all the other places that are haunted by the ghosts settlement…