Cover of the December 16, 1923 Oakland Tribune Sunday Magazine.
If you missed our “Trip in Time” slideshow celebrating American Indian History Month, you can still view it here http://photos.mercurynews.com/2012/11/02/trip-in-time-celebrating-american-indian-heritage-month/
November’s edition of “Trip in Time” takes a look back at American Indian history as seen in the Oakland Tribune. Various historical events include the American Indian Movement “Un-Thanksgiving Day” and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show’s visit to Oakland.”
Above, Oakland’s American Indian Community School conducted its first day of classes in a tepee on the front lawn on January 10, 1977. Located at 1735 6th Avenue, the school was operated by the American Indian Adult Education Program to provide an alternative to public education for those of Indian ancestry.
CAN YOU HELP SOLVE A MYSTERY?
This undated, unattributed photo was recently found in our archives. The only information the back states it was taken of an Indian village on Oak Flat Road, pre- 1900. This would be the rim of what is now Yosemite National Park.
The print was made from a glass negative, there are several others like it that seem to have been filed sometime in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This is one that I have not been able to identify the photographer for. I have also not been able to identify the makers of the dwellings in the photograph.
Have knowledge of American Indians in Yosemite or late 1800s photographers?
