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by Daniel E. Anderson
(December 2004; last updated July 2011)

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• Origin of the Place Name Yosemite. The following article explains of the meaning of the word Yosemite in more detail. It is from “Yosemite and Tamalpais,” Names (Journal of the American Name Society) 3(3):185-186 (Sept. Madison Scott Beeler, Professor of Linguistics, University of California Berkeley (1910-1989). Beeler was an authority on California names of Indian origin.
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What does Yosemite mean?

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The Yosemite People called Yosemite Ahwahnee or “mouth,” because the valley wallsresembled a gaping bear’s mouth.

Yohhe'meti(Southern Miwok)or

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Yos_.s_.e'meti(Central Miwok)originally referredto the Indian tribe that lived in Yosemite Valley.Yosemite means literally“those who kill”(Yos, “to kill,”the modifier e, “one who,”and the plural suffix -meti).It was used by the surrounding Miwok tribes.The Yosemite people were referred to as killers by these surrounding tribes,who feared them.The Yosemite tribe, led by Chief Tenaya,were composed of renegades from multiple tribes,including Mono Paiute from the eastern Sierra.The Paiute were traditional enemies of the more-peaceful Miwok people.

What did the Yosemite People call the Yosemite Valley?

The Yosemite people called Yosemite ValleyAwooni or Owwonifor (gaping) “large mouth,”where the stem Awo or Owwo means “mouth” andthe suffix ni means “large.”This referred to the appearance of the Yosemite Valley walls from thethe village of Ahwahnee, which was located on the valley floor.The spelling used by Bunnell was “Ahwahne” and later “Ahwahnee.”The Yosemite people called themselves as Ah-wah-ne-chee,or “dwellers of Ahwahnee.”Ahwahnee originally referred to the largest and most powerful Indian villagein the valley(located 1/2 mile west of Yosemite Village and south of Northside Drive),but the word also came to mean the entire valley.

When asked, Chief Tenaya,tried to explain the meaning of “Ahwahnee”by using sign language.Tenaya“by the motion of his hands, indicated depth,while trying to illustrate the name,at the same time plucking grass which he held up before me.”Major Savage mistakingly interpreted Ahwahnee to mean “deep grassy valley,” when Tenaya was signing “mouth.”¹

Miwok or Me-wuk (Southern dialect), by the way,is the Miwok word for “people.”

Mr. Bunnell,who named the valley, thought Yosemite meant“Grizzly Bear.”However, this was another mistake in interpretation made by his commander,Major James Savage,who knew the Miwok languagebut confused Yosemiteforïhümat_.iorïsümat_.i, which means “grizzly bear.”Major Savage himself said”he could not readily understand Ten-ie-ya,or the Indian guide, as they appeared to speak a Pai-ute jargon.”²

So why is the Valley called Yosemite and not Ahwahnee?

Yosemite Valley was named by L. H. Bunnell of the Mariposa Battalion in 1851.The Battalion was formed by local miners in the foothills afterneighboring tribes, feeling encroached on their lands,raided Savage’s Trading Post, killing several people there at the time.Mr. Bunnell named the valley in honor of the tribe they wereabout to capture and drive out of their home, Yosemite Valley.Pioneers at the time often disregarded native place names or didn’tknow them and used place names of their own making.To quote Mr. Bunnell³:

As I did not take a fancy to any of the names proposed,I remarked that“an American name would be the most appropriate;” that“I could not see any necessity for going to a foreign country fora name for American scenery—thegrandest that had ever yet been looked upon.That it would be better to give it an Indian name than to import a strangeand inexpressive one;that the name of the tribe who had occupied it,would be more appropriate than any I had heard suggested.”I then proposed “that we give the valley the name of Yo-sem-i-ty,as it was suggestive, euphonious, and certainly American;that by so doing,the name of the tribe of Indians which we met leaving their homes in this valley,perhaps never to return, would be perpetuated.”. . . . upon a viva voce vote being taken,it was almost unanimously adopted.

It was common practice by European settlers in 18th century United Statesto either ignore a Indian (Native American) place name and rename it,or, as with Yosemite, to use another Indian word for a place name.

How do you pronounce Yosemite and Ahwahnee?

Yosemite is pronounced yo-SE-mea-tea.

Ahwahnee is pronounced ah-WAA-nee.

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¹Bunnell, L. H.Discovery of the Yosemite (1892),chapter 4, p. 65.

²Ibid., chapter 4, p. 63.

³Ibid. chapter 4, p. 62.

Origin of the Place Name Yosemite

The following article explains of the meaning of the word Yosemite in more detail.It is from “Yosemite and Tamalpais,”Names (Journal of the American Name Society) 3(3):185-186 (Sept. 1955)by Dr. Madison Scott Beeler, Professor of Linguistics,University of California Berkeley (1910-1989).Dr. Beeler was an authority on California names of Indian origin.

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Yosemite and Tamalpais

MADISON S. BEELER

Recent work on a California Indian language belonging tothe linguistic stock called Miwok has familiarized me with theliterature on the languages of that family, and particularly with thepublications of Lucy Freeland de Angulo, who is the authority onthe subject. The following two place names derived from Miwokare presented to draw the attention of onomatologists to workwhich may have escaped their notice.

The name of Yosemite¹has been connected with the SierraMiwok word for ‘(grizzly-)bear’ and with a collective noun meaning‘the killers’ or ‘a band of killers.’ InMrs.[Lucy Shepard] Freeland’s “Language of the Sierra Miwok”²‘bear’ appears asïšï'·mati (p. 3)andyošé-·met_^iis defined as ‘the Killers’ (p. 159).These words, although of coursedistinct in the native tongue, show a notable degree of similarityin their phonological structure, and a confusion between them, ortheir being taken as variant forms of a single term is easily understandableon the part of those unfamiliar with the language. Thatthe second, and not the first, is the true etymon is most likely. Inthe first place, the word for ‘bear’ lacks the initial y-, and the highcentral vowel (transcribed ï) of its initial syllable was commonlyequated by Spanish speakers with their vowel e and by Anglo-Americanseither with ü or with u. And secondly,yošé-met_^ifitsreadily into the morphological pattern of Miwok: the suffixation tothe verbal root yóš- ‘to kill’ of the morpheme -e-‘one who, that which, does something’yields the agent nounyošé· ‘killer,’ andthis is pluralized by the addition of -met_^i,“a pluralizing suffix,probably more or less collective in meaning, used in all dialects”(op. cit., p. 158). The variantyohé·met_^i?,proper to the southernor Mariposa dialect of Sierra Miwok, in whose range the famousvalley lies, indicates that the word first was heard by white menfrom the lips of speakers of the more northerly dialects. “This[the form with -š-] is the name which was applied by the neighboringMiwok to the dwellers in Yosemite Valley, who appear to havebeen (at least in historic times) a band of renegades from varioustribes” (op cit. p. 159).

[At this point the article continues about the etymology of Mt. Tamalpais.]

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¹For a discussion and a bibliography see Erwin G. Gudde,California Place Names, 1949, s.v.

²Indiana University Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics,Memoir 6 of theInternational Journal of American Linguistics, 1951.

Anderson Article References

• Barrett, S. A. (1879-1965) “Glossary,”Myths of the Southern Sierra Miwok, UCPAAE 16:1, (March 1919), p. 28. See entry for Yosemite.
• Bates, Craig D. (1952-)“Names and Meanings for Yosemite Valley,”Yosemite Nature Notes47(3):42-44 (1978).Summarizes evidence by Drs. Barrett and Broadbent, in 1919 and 1969 respectively,thatYosemite means “they are killers,”and evidence from Dr. Broadbent thatAhwahnee means “[place of] the big mouth.”
• Broadbent, Sylvia M. (1932 - 2015),The Southern Sierra Miwok Language,University of California Publications in Linguistics, v. 38(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964).Based on her Berkeley Ph.D. dissertation.See entries in “Dictionary” forYosemite,kill, to,(pluralizer, collective),Bear moiety,?yhy•mat^.i-,joh•e?-HmetiH-,jo•h-,-•,and-HmetiH-.
• Bunnell, Lafayette Houghton (1824 - 1903),“Chapter 4,” Discovery of the Yosemite(1892).An account by Mr. Bunnell, who was a member of the Mariposa Battalion,of how Yosemite was named.Mr. Bunnell named the valley Yosemite to honor the tribe they were driving out.An earlier version of Bunnell’s account is in his article“How the Yo-Semite Valley was Discovered and Named,” Hutchings’ Illustrated California Magazine (May 1859) [PDF]
• Beeler, Madison S. (1910-1989),“Yosemite and Tamalpais,”Names (Journal of the American Name Society) 3(3):185-186 (Sept. 1955).This article is quoted above.Dr. Beeler discusses why the origin of Yosemite is not“Grizzly Bear,” but“those who kill.”
• Berman, Howard, ed. Freeland’s Central Sierra Miwok MythsReport #3 Survey of California and Other Indian Languages(Berkeley: UC press, 1982). See p. 124, jošé.
• Cole, James E.,“Origin of the Name, ‘Yosemite’,” Yosemite Nature Notes, 15(7):49-54
• Freeland, Lucy S. (1890-1972)andSylvia M. Broadbent (1932-2015),Central Sierra Miwok Dictionary with Texts,University of California Publications in Linguistics, v. 23(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960).See entries forjošé•-meti?,Yosemite Indians,kill, to and killers,volitional tense,pluralizer (collective),jy'n•a-,-e•-,and-meti-.
• Kroeber, A. L. (1876-1960)“Place Names,”Handbook of Indians of California (1919), p. 892. See entry for Yosemite.
• Godfrey, Elizabeth, et al.Yosemite Indians (Yosemite Association, 1977).In the current, revised 1977 edition, Craig Bates addedfootnote 4 on p. 35, which he claims, without supporting evidence, that“‘Yosemite’ in the Ahwahneechee dialect is probably a corruptionof ‘Yo-che-ma-te’, which translates as‘some among them are killers.’”This is the origin of blindly-repeated misstatements about the meaning ofYosemite, including theYosemite Association website (2009)and their 1996 booklet by Craig Bates, The Miwok in Yosemite, p. 9.However, the next year(Bates, 1978)states that Yosemite simply means“they are killers” (the “some among them” prefix is not part of the word and is fictitious).
  Strangely enough, the false, previously-believed meanings forAhwahnee and Yosemite(“deep, grassy valley” and “grizzly bear”),which all historians now recognize as false,are still mentioned in the main text on page 1 of the latest edition (1977) of Yosemite Indians.This booklet has other inaccuracies, such as the claim in footnote 9 of p. 35 that the Zenas Leonard party saw Yosemite Valley in 1833 (most historians now believe they saw The Cascades, which are west of Yosemite Valley), and the fictitious “Legend of Lost Arrow” on pp. 30-31.
• Gudde, Erwin (1889-1969)California Place Names(1998), s. v.Discusses the origin of Yosemite and Ahwahnee.
• Solnit, Rebecca. (c. 1961-),“The Name of the Snake,”Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West,1st ed. (San Francisco: Sierra Club Press, 1994), pp. 319-320, 399.Discusses the origin of the misstold story of Yosemite meaning“some among them are killers” and that“killers” refer to the whites—specifically the Mariposa Battalion.Although it would be an ironic appellation that people would like to believe,as the Mariposa Battalion named Yosemite Valley,it’s not true.Yosemite was what the neighboring Miwok calledthe Yosemite people, whom they feared.Also, Yosemitewas in use by the Miwok people before the Mariposa Battalion existed.

  One misstatement Ms. Solnit missed was that “some”does not appear as a morpheme or root of Yosemite.So Yosemite means, simply, “they are killers.”This misstatement (“some”) originated with Craig Bates (see Godfrey et al., Yosemite Indians (1977), above).

• “Yosemite definition and meaning. Yosemite Tribe - The truth and not the BIG LIE”(blog posting October 2006) gives an Indian perspective on the name Yosemite.

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Last updated29 May 2016.

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