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Title: Many problems with historical facts with this book.
Review: I like the pictures, but there are many, many historical facts wrong with this book. I have seen the census rolls of most of the "Yosemite Miwoks" and they are basically Paiutes and some Yokuts from Madera. Madera is a town over 60 miles away from Yosemite.So how does that make them "Miwoks". Yokuts are from a totally different tribal and langauge group. They were San Joaquin Valley floor Indians and not Miwoks.The rest are mainly Paiutes from around Mono Lake. So how is that Miwok?The book is full of "could be's" and "might be's".I thought this book was supposed to be a book on the Indians of Yosemite and not a Federal Recognition of the Southern Sierra Miwoks paid by the National Park Service?Nice pictures though, some are misidentified as "Miwok" when they are from another tribe.
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