Place: CA-Indian Canyon

Indian Canyon, Creek (Hetch Hetchy Reservior Quad)
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Description:
"It was up this canyon that the Indian prisoners escaped in 1851 ... from which circumstances originated the name; and it was down this that the avenging Monos crept, when they substantially exterminated the Yo Semite tribe in 1853." (Hutchings, In the Heart, 375)

"This ravine became known to us as 'Indian Canon', though called by the Indians, 'Le-Hamite,' 'the arrow-wood.' It was also known to them by the name of 'Scho-tal-lo-wi,' meaning the way to 'Fall Creek,'" (Bunnell, Discovery, 1880, 169.)

Powers said the indians used a generic word for canyon-Ma'-ta- and held up both hands to indicate perpendicular walls. (Powers, 364)

"Indian Canyon" is on King and Gardinder's map, 1865. The creek was at first called "Indian Creek" ; the name was changed by a BGN decision in 1932 to avoid confusion with another Indian Creek which flows into the Merced River near El Portal. (YNP)

Schotallowi. Indian cañon; the gulch between the Yosemite Falls and the North Dome. The Yosemite Book: a description of the Yosemite Valley and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of California by Josiah Dwight Whitney, Jr, Chp Introduction

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References:

•  Summit Post
• Christopher Brennon's blog
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