Yosemite Maggie Howard--Mono Lake Paiute--ca 1930's at Yosemite Photograph Notes: Maggie Howard--Ta-bu-ce--Mono Lake Paiute--ca 1930's--Yosemite Valley Indian Day Indian Photograph Source
Children's book describing Michael Adams and Anne Adams Helms adventures in the High Sierras illustrated with photographs by Ansel Adams. Story follows the daily life and customs of brother and sister living in the Yosemite Valley exploring nature, visiting with Maggie ""Tabuce"" Howard (a major basket demonstrator and member of the Mono Lake Paiute tribe), and spending time with their Uncle Don.
South Pasadenan Minerva Hamilton Hoyt (1866-1945) was passionate about the deserts of the Southwest. Her tireless desert conservation efforts led to the establishment of Joshua Tree National Park.
This brochure was created by Joshua Tree National Park to spotlight Minerva Hamilton Hoyt (1866-1945). She was a devoted advocate for the protection of deserts, and helped foudn the International Desert League. Her tireless desert conservation efforts led to the establishment of Joshua Tree National Park.
Miss Barbara Cummings is employed as a seasonal park guide by the NPS, and her mother, Mrs. Faun Dene Cummings, is an Information Receptionist for the U.S. Forest Service. Many visitors photographed the mother-daughter combination.
While many women's clubs wrote to Congress asking for the preservation of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, women's club from San Francisco tended to support the idea of building a dam in the Valley. In their petition, the Hypatia Women's Club of San Francisco stressed that the Hetch Hetchy Valley provided the only source of pure and safe drinking water for San Francisco. They questioned the desire of preservationists to sacrifice the needs of people to preserve every tree.
Women played a key role in organizing and maintaining the occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969-1971) yet their story is often overlooked. This panel, moderated by original occupier Dr. La Nada War Jack, explores the role of women in the indigenous rights movement from the occupation to the present. Please join us to hear the stories of these remarkable women who continue the hard work of positive change.
Dr. LaNada War Jack is a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes where she lives on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho. In January of 1968 she was the first Native American student enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated with honors in an Independent Major of Native American Law & Politics. While attending UC Berkeley, Dr. War Jack participated as the first Native American component of the first Ethnic Studies Program in the UC statewide effort in establishing Native American Studies, African American Studies, Chicano Studies and Asian Studies. She is the author of Native Resistance An Intergenerational Fight for Survival and Life.
