900 Acres Bordering Yosemite Returned to Tribe That Was Expelled 175 Years Ago

Nearly 900 acres of land on Yosemite border returned to tribe forced out 175 years ago

In the 1850s, miners, settlers and soldiers violently drove them out of the Yosemite area during the Gold Rush.

900 Acres Bordering Yosemite Returned to Tribe That Was Expelled 175 Years Ago

Nearly 900 acres of land bordering Yosemite National Park have been transferred back to tribal ownership after 175 years, The transfer from Pacific Forest Trust to the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation provides the tribe with ownership of the naturally and culturally significant Henness Ridge, site of a traditional Native American trail from the Central Valley […] The post 900 Acres Bordering Yosemite Returned to Tribe That Was Expelled 175 Years Ago…

What Was the Dawes Act of 1887?

The United States achieved Manifest Destiny in 1848 when it formally gained California from Mexico at the end of the Mexican-American War. Twenty years later, the Transcontinental Railroad finally tied the nation together from east to west by providing a narrow belt of mass transportation through the interior. But what should be done about the many Native American tribes living in the West? Hostilities were increasing between white settlers and …