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[Eva Elisabeth]

(12-07-2014 05:40 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Wasn't there Indian land in dispute in the deal also?

Maybe about the protection of Indian reservations? I just found this which had happened over a decade before:

Yosemite Valley's first residents were American Indians who inhabited the region perhaps as long as 6,000 years ago. By the time Euro-Americans entered the Yosemite area in the mid-19th century, the Valley was inhabited by peoples who called the Yosemite Valley "Ahwahnee" ("Place of a Gaping Mouth") and themselves the "Ahwahneechee." They harvested black oak acorns, hunted and fished, and traded these and other items native to Yosemite Valley, with the Mono Lake Paiute people for obsidian, rabbit skins and pine nuts.

Few non-Indians knew of the existence of Yosemite Valley prior to 1851. The discovery of gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills in 1848 brought thousands of gold seekers to the area. By 1851, the continued theft of Indian lands and murder of native people resulted in the Mariposa Indian War. On March 27, 1851, in an attempt to subdue a group of Indian people, the state-sanctioned Mariposa Battalion entered Yosemite Valley. They became the first group of non-Indians to record their entry into the Valley.

The war ended on July 1 with the outcome of the Ahwahneechees being forced to accept reservation life.

Now - good morning and welcome to peep through window #8:
   
Who/what is hiding there?