 Painting of a "Mariposa Indian Encampment, Yosemite Valley, California" by Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1872 | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| unknown (1911) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Yosemite Valley, California | |
| Languages | |
| Southern Sierra Miwok language | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| other Plains_and_Sierra_Miwok and Mono people[1] |
The Ahwahnechee, Awani, or Ahwahnechee were an Indigenous people of California who historically lived in the Yosemite Valley.[2] They were a band of Miwok people,[2] specifically Southern Sierra Miwok.
The Awani people's heritage can be found all over Yosemite National Park.[3][4][5]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
survivingwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Hodge, Frederick Webb (1911). Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Part 1. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 118–119.
- ^ "Yosemite Indians". National Park Service. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ^ Bunnell 1892, ch. XVIII.
- ^ Fragnoli, Delaine (December 2004). "Naming yosemite". ATQ: The American Transcendental Quarterly. Vol. 18, no. 4. pp. 263–275.