, and Teneiya said that the name had been given to his band
because they occupied the mountains and valley which were the
favorite resort of the grizzly bears, and his people were expert
in killing them; that his tribe had adopted the name because
those who had bestowed it were afraid of the grizzlies, and also
feared his band.

The Yosemites were perhaps the most warlike of any of the tribes
in this part of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, who were, as a rule,
a peaceful people, dividing the territory among them, and
indulging in few controversies. In fact, these Indians in general
were less belligerent and warlike than any others on the Pacific
Coast. When difficulties arose, they were usually settled
peacefully by arbitration, in a grand council of the chiefs and
head men of the tribes involved, without resorting to open
hostilities.

OTHER TRIBES.

Other bands of Indians in the vicinity of the Yosemite Valley
were the Po-ho-nee'-chees who lived near the headwaters of the
Po-ho'-no or Bridal Veil Creek in summer, and on the South Fork
of the Merced' River in winter, about twelve miles below
Wawo'na; the Po-to-en'-cies, who lived on the Merced River;
Wil-tuc-um'-nees, Tuol'-unme River; Noot'-choos and
Chow-chil'-las, Chowchilla Valley; Ho-na'-ches and
Me'-woos, Fresno River and vicinity; and Chook-chan'-ces, San
Joaquin River and vicinity.

These tribes, including the Yosemites, were all somewhat
affiliated by common ancestry or by intermarriage, and were
similar in their general characteristics and customs. They were
all called by the early California settlers, "Digger Indians," as
a term of derision, on account of their not being good fighters,
and from their practice of digging the tuberous roots of certain
plants, for food.

INDIAN WAR OF 1851.

Dr. Bunnell, in his book already referred to, has given the
soldiers' and white men's account of the cause of the Indian war
of 1851, but a statement of the grievances on the part of the
Indians, which caused the uniting of all the different tribes in
the mining region adjacent to Yosemite, in an attempt to drive
the white invaders from their country, has never been published,
and a brief account of these grievances may be interesting.

AGGRESSIONS BY THE WHITE SETTLERS.

The first parties of prospecting miners were welcomed by the
Indians with their usual friendliness and hospitality toward
strangers--a universal characteristic of these tribes,--and the
m