Went to the library here today to do some searching. Found they have a CD on the MIWOK INDIANS, Didn't have time to view it but maybe tomorrow. Found a pamphlet put out by the YOSEMITE NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION IN COOPERATION WITH THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE REVISED 1972 The photography's in this booklet are from the historic photo life of the National Park Service; Yosemite Collection Guide to the PIONEER CEMETERY. Excerpts" Cremation was practiced by the Ahwahneechees living in pre-discovery Yosemite. The last ceremony of this kind in Valley was upon the death of a nephew of Chief One-Eye Dick, killed in a hunting accident about 1873. The cremating grounds were directly across the road from the old Leidig Hotel, near the base of Sentinel Rock, so the Leidigs were compulsory witnesses. (See Yosemite Nature Notes, V 12, n.9,1933 The earliest recorded Indian burial was that of KOSANO, OR TORCH BEARER, father of TA-BU-CE, More than 80 years old and not well, he died after a difficult trip through snow from this native Mono Lake about 1875. He was buried just south of the large rock that is seen near the southeast corner of the Valley District bldg. The following bits of information on the Indian graves in the cemetery were gathered from many sources, including interviews with Indian now living in Yosemite. Ten of the grave markers are redwood boards that have been placed in recent times, while the eleventh is simply a granite boulder. The following accounts are headed by inscriptions exactly as they appear on the ll markers.