AbstractReal-Time Mapping, Populating Boundaries of Yosemite, California, TreatiesTrack: Tribal/Indigenous GIS Programs Author Mapping the historic boundary marker references of each of the congressional maps from the eighteen unratified Treaties of 1851-1852 between the California Indians and the United States government required research to correlate data to visualize their locations. When the congressional treaty maps were compared to remnant family use tracts of the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation defined by Stephen Powers (1866), they confirmed the literature review, family oral history, and population data reflecting existing occupation sites of 1850 inhabited inside the proposed Treaty areas. The value of retaining population loci has been beneficial in the preservation of traditional cultural properties found within them. The ethnographic villages confirmed through this activity, aligned resources which were to be depleted by the inflation of the populations located within the Treaty M, N, and E boundaries when the outlying lands were evacuated to provide space for colonization by the growing Gold Rush California immigrants. Danette Johnson Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation Yosemite, CA P.O. Box 1881 Mariposa, California 95338 United States Phone: 510-381-0425 Fax: 209-846-0157 E-mail: johnsd88@yahoo.com Sandra Gaskell ARC Archaeology P.O. Box 1881 Mariposa, California 95338 United States Phone: 209-614-2505 Fax: 209-846-0157 E-mail: arcresours@gmail.com Anthony Brochini Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation P.O. Box 1200 Mariposa, California 95338 United States Phone: 209-379-1008 E-mail: tony_brochini@nps.gov |