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I had a dog I didn't even want, but my aunt just kinda shoveled her off on me when we (self, mom, little sister) moved back to this state. my aunt, a career dog groomer, bred toy poodles for extra cash. the dog she dumped on me was an ugly little terripoo named ‘sparkle’, of all names. she was a dingy white color, but it was straight hair, with a scraggly overcoat like you see on some terriors . she was built like a terrior. I was told she chewed underwear and, according to my aunt, when dogs do that you can't train them not to (I trained her not to the first time she tried it). and I has to take the dog with me, because my aunt wouldn't ‘babysit' . i didnt have a car, cant even drive, and we had just moved into the state so I had no where to go. I started walking around the neighborhood with this ugly little ankle-biter .it was a densely wooded area, the houses and trailer just kinda tucked I around the trees. one place had a dog trail, a nice little stretch of cleared space under the power lines that went to the river.sparkle and I were dinking around back there, exploring the river and woods when we stumbled across what appeared to be a ranch in the middle of the woods. curious, I started nosing around. in the state we had been on before, I had done some volunteer work with horses. it was a cowboy state, and I was hoping to run across some horses just to say hello. so, sparkle at my heel, I wandered into the barn, as both ends were open. as I walked down the barn, peering into each stall on my right, I failed to notice the animals on my left. I had passed the open stall the two great Danes were sleeping in, so when they came out and started growling they were between me and my way out.sparkle shocked me at that moment. he planted herself between me and those monster dogs — a toy terripoo against two beautiful, purebred, show quality great Danes. she started growling right back at them. the Danes stopped growling and looked at her as if to say“you see us? right? are you serious?”but they didn't seem inclined to test her either. I started talking, telling the Danes how gorgeous they were, and I know they are doing their job, they were doing it well, I was just going to leave now, as I quickly moved towards them without any sudden, jerky, or threatening movements. sparkle stayed right between us, hackles up, teeth bared, head down staring them down the whole time. they let me get past.as soon as I was past them, though, they flanked me, one on either side and just behind me. sparkle let out a series of insane sounding panic yaps and I was barely able to scoop her up before she started trying to bite one of them. the Danes didn't make any fuss over it, just calmly escorted the both of us to the edge of the property and sat there watching untill we were out of sight.I gave that little “kick me” dog in my arms so much praise and admiration she could have drowned in it. I don't like small dogs, the way they act, the pining and yapping and territorial shit they get away with because they are small and cute. but she acted just like a real dog should, she protected me even though there was no chance of her winning that fight. she earned a lot of respect from me for that, and I miss her ugly little mug to this day. RIP Sparkle, you were a good dog, well loved and missed still. i hope you got to be as big as you thought you were that day in doggy heaven.edita picture was requested, I don't have any but I found this look alike online. I wouldn't have been able to tell one from the other.

They still live in the area (meaning the larger area of California and some in Nevada). I answered a version of this question before. Erik Painter's answer to What became of the Native American tribe living in Yosemite Valley? Below the brief history here is the latest news about what some of the Native Americans from Yosemite have been doing this year (2018) to return to having a presence in Yosemite.The last of the Ahwahnechee were forced out of the valley in when their houses were destroyed by the National Park service in 1969. The official story of the park often says that the Southern Sierra Miwok subgroup called the Ahwahnechee in Yosemite "became extinct" as a people in the 19th century. However, the US federal government and the California government has evicted and killed Yosemite Native people in 1851, 1906, 1929, and 1969. Clearly they are are not “extinct” if they were last forced out in 1969, only 49 years ago.Other people who used the area were the Yokuts (also called the Mariposa), and the Mono Lake Paiute and the Owens Valley Paiute. Former Mission Indians fleeing the Spanish, Mexicans and then the Americans also moved into the area in the 19th century.The idea that that the areas that are now National Parks were “pristine” uninhabited or abandoned “pure” nature is a convenient and comforting falsehood. Native people were forced out at gunpoint of what are now many of the famous National Parks that were their homes. Yosemite and Grand Canyon and Yellowstone and Glacier are good example of lands that were peoples homes for thousands of years and were then cleared by forced to be “sublime” and”pure” natural areas. Here is a book on the subject. Indian Country, God's Country: Native Americans and the National Parks Native Americans and the National Parks by Philip BurnhamNational Parks & American Indians: YellowstoneNational Parks & American Indians: Grand Canyon http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/646https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/native-history-yosemite-national-park-created-on-native-homelands-moxh1K8AZkGNsHSCWUxSQA/With the starting of the state of California the new governor, Peter Hardenman Burnett, made a proclamation in his first year on the priority of “exterminating” Native Americans in California. By 1845, the Indian population of California was down to no more than a quarter of what it had been when the Spanish Franciscan missions were established in 1769 and slaved their regime of slavery. In the next twenty-five years, under American rule, it would fall by another 80 percent.“Whites are becoming impressed with the belief that it will be absolutely necessary to exterminate the savages before they can labor much longer in the mines with security,” - the Daily Alta California in 1849The US gained Californian at the end of the Mexican American war in Feb 1848. The discovery of gold was announced in March The non-Native American population went from about 14,000 in 1848 to 200,000 in 1852 due to the gold rush. Most of the state populations had been Californios and Native Americans. Illegal immigration was a worry of the Mexican government. With good reason. Immigrants came from Chile and South America, Europe, Australia, China, Mexico and the eastern and Midwestern and southern US.California became at state in 1850. At the first session of the California state legislature, officials gave white settlers the right to take custody of Native American children. The law also gave white people the right to arrest Native people for minor offenses like loitering or possessing alcohol. It and made it possible for whites to put Native Americans convicted of crimes to work to pay off the fines they incurred. The law was widely abused and ultimately led to the enslavement of tens of thousands of Native Americans in the name of their “protection.” It is ironic when much of California is has been recently reluctant to raise taxes that in the first years it passed laws to raise a total of about $1.7 million (about 53 million dollars in 2018) to kill Native Americans. It was a staggering sum in its day on supplying militias and paying bounties to kill Native people. One example in one place was in Shasta City, where officials in 1851 offered a bounty of five dollars for every California Indian head turned in. Several unsuccessful miners suddenly found a more lucrative living in murdering Indians, bringing in horses laden with as many as a dozen Native people’s severed heads. Marysville and Honey Lake paid similar bounties on scalps. It was the same all over the state. In places where no bounty was offered, freelance Indian killers often sought and received payment for services rendered from the state government.In Yosemite in 1851 the Mariposa Battalion attacked the Natives there. It was a state militia group. A group of thugs organized by the state and given arms to kill Native people. It had three companies, each with between 55 and 72 men. They attacked Native people in the whole area as well as the Yosemite Valley. Villages were burned and Native Americans shot, hung or captured. Others fled to the foothills or eastern Sierra. But slowly those native people moved back.Many modern Americans have a really myopic and odd view of how long ago things were. This is very recent in terms of knowing someone who knew someone who was there. For example, I knew my great grandfather who was born in 1874. I am 56. He died in 1970. If he had been Native from this area he would have been born in Yosemite and grow up there with stories of what happened 23 years before he was born. The same is true for Natives today who are from are area. Some of the people who moved back after 1851 had children who were then alive in the mid to late 2oth century. Their relatives are still alive.This year, in June 2018, the American Indian Council of Mariposa County/Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation signed a 30 year agreement with the park to be able to build a ceremonial roundhouse for the beginning of a new village there. Seven tribes who "remain as partners in Yosemite's stewardship today" will be able to use Wahhoga (the rebuilt village).Yosemite's native community had been forcibly moved to Wahhoga after another Yosemite Valley village was destroyed in 1928 to make way for a medical clinic. They were moved and mistreated for a long time after that. Some today remember other housing that people called "Army Row" when they were a kids.A former tribal Chairman,Tony Brochini 's great-grandmother, Phoebe Wilson Hogan, was the last person to live in the village. She resided in one of its 15 small cabins that were gradually destroyed as inhabitants lost seasonal or full-time employment in the park."They burned down all the houses because they wouldn't allow any other Indians to come in and live there," Brochini said, "because they were systematically trying to remove the indigenous people out of Yosemite."The now-gone cabins are being replaced with umachas, traditional teepee-shaped houses covered with cedar bark. There are already several built. This is a project led by a granddaughter of Charles Castro who grew up in the Valley. She was named after her great-great grandmother Leanna Tom, a Yosemite native. One Wahhoga cabin survived, now used as a wildlife management office. There are hopes to move it back to the village.They have a grant from the Yosemite Conservancy to build it. A volunteer crew from the Jackson Rancheria Band of Miwuk Indians is handling the construction. Materials were gathered from Stanislaus National Forest. No man-made materials are being used. Oak pins are being used instead of metal nails.50 Native people were at the signing including a few elderly people who had once lived in Wahhoga . The American Indian Council of Mariposa County/Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation finally got the OK to begin construction a decade ago, only to have their work halted for nearly seven years by Yosemite's former superintendent, who “cited safety concerns”. Of course these “concerns” were BS.Read more here: Decades after destruction, Yosemite welcomes home Native AmericansHere is Les James, chairman of the Wahhoga Committe.Here is a video with Native people at the ceremony who grew up in Yosemite: The Fresno BeeBuild a Traditional Roundhouse at Wahhoga Village - 2017The descendants of these people and people related to them live all over California and Nevada. Many have worked on farms in the Central Valley for generations.There are many federally recognized tribes and a number of ones struggling for recognition. Here are some of the modern federally recognized tribes with descendants or related groups from the area:There are the eleven tribes of Miwok descent in California.Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk IndiansCalifornia Valley Miwok Tribe, formerly known as the Sheep Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk IndiansChicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk IndiansFederated Indians of Graton Rancheria, formerly known as the Federated Coast MiwokIone Band of Miwok Indians, of Ione, CaliforniaJackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk IndiansMiddletown RancheriaShingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract)[9]Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne RancheriaUnited Auburn Indian Community of Auburn RancheriaWilton Rancheria Indian TribeMono tribes:Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono Indians of CaliforniaCold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians of CaliforniaNorthfork Rancheria of Mono Indians of CaliforniaTable Mountain Rancheria of CaliforniaTule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River ReservationOwens Valley Paiute live on the California-Nevada border, near the Owens River on the eastern side of the southern Sierra NevadaBig Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley, Big Pine, California (also Northern Paiute)Bridgeport Paiute Indian Colony of California, Bridgeport, CaliforniaFort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians, Independence, CaliforniaLone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, Lone Pine, CaliforniaBishop Paiute Tribe, Bishop, California (also Northern Paiute)Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe of the Benton Paiute Reservation, Benton, California[Contemporary Yokuts tribes:Santa Rosa Rancheria (Tachi)Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians (multiple tribes reside under the Picayune Rancheria)Table Mountain Rancheria (Chukchansi)Tejon Indian Tribe of CaliforniaTule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River ReservationTuolumne Rancheria

This beautiful question deserves a wise and considered answer, but I am not able to provide one. At different times of my life, working under different challenges and pressures and degrees of learning, I've had different ideas of an ideal existence.The one thing I did realize as time added up on my ledger page is that there can be no heaven without something hellish to compare it with, that to appreciate the good one must know the opposite, too. For example: the ranch I had was idyllic, with 12 acres of grass and trees, easy to maintain, with a little ranch house on it and a couple of horses to ride. Fountains plinked away in the summer, pine trees I'd planted whispered and sighed in the wind, birds were everywhere going about their busy lives. Each spring frogs would leave their eggs in the dog's water bowl and I'd scoop them out and put them in a sheltered place where they could become tadpoles and then tiny little frogs that one day disappeared over the edge of the pool to start their own froggy adventures.Every moment spent in peace and beauty was precious. Why? Because on a very regular basis my neighbors on adjacent acreages would pull out their automatic weapons to shoot for hours, would get on their unmufflered dirt bikes to tear up their property and our shared dirt road for hours, would spend hours working on their internal combustion engines to the accompaniment of loud music and much revving. All such activities completely legal in this area.I understood all the 15 years on the ranch that the marvelous quiet, the sound of my horse's feet padding quietly along the trails on the property, the vision of half a dozen White Tail deer bounding off at my approach were all the more precious, a taste of heaven, because of the presence of disturbing elements that negated those fine things every now and then.There's no such thing as Utopia, even in one's fantasies. If it were always Paradise it would become very boring very soon. It is challenge and adversity that seem to make life so beautiful; finding the good in our existence and being aware of it.