Jay Johnson - contemporary Miwok Chief
In recent time the National Park Service that purports to Preserve and Protect have done all in their power to drive away the Miwoks from the Yosemite National Park. A few years ago the NPS promised to build homes for the Miwoks - but they first fooled the Miwoks who lived in the valley to move to a location far remote. When the Miwoks moved the NPS as all Whites do turned their backs and never ever kept the promise made to the Miwoks. Do you think this is right?
Whites first laid their eyes on the Yosemite Valley in the fall of 1833. Captain Joseph Walker and a party of trappers searching for a route across the Sierra Nevada chanced to look down upon the Yosemite Valey from the south. A few years later Chief Tenaya and his tribe encountered the Whites and the worst nighmare of their lives. The Whites stole Yosemite Valley and to this day those few who have links to the Yosemite Valley through thousands of years mourn the day the Sacred Valley was defiled by the Whites. In subsequent years thousands of Miwoks were killed for no reason. Do you think this is right?