Roger Salas, a direct descendent of the Yosemite - Mono Lake Paiute people and a direct descendent of important historical Yosemite Indian people.

Roger's artwork appeared in the 2008 Spring issue of News from Native California. See artwork below;

The Paiute people would like to congratulate Roger for honoring one of the most recognizable Native Americans by drawing her. Not only is Tabuce Howard one of the most recognizable Natives in Yosemite National Park history, but in the history of California, Maggie "Tabuce" Howard, Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiute.

David Andrews also did a great job for supplying the historical text.

Roger Salas in front of the statue of a Pony Express rider in Sacramento's Old Town. Ironically the Pony Express riders were frequently attacked by Paiutes who were angered by their treatment at the hands of the U.S. government.

Even though many of the Paiute people were pleased, including the Chairman, I on the other hand noticed something that was odd in the magazine.

Interestingly a couple of pages after Roger's art honoring Maggie "Tabuce" Howard was this ad for these books about Yosemite Miwok "legends";

In the many, many years of reading News from Native California I have never seen the magazine promote these two certain books in a full page color ad. These books were printed by Heyday Press, which also publishes News from Native California. Interestingly when they published Roger's art of Tabuce the magazine decided to promote THESE TWO books out of hundreds of Native books that they have published. Why is that?

I laughed at how they described the second book "Populated with characters BASED ON REAL SIERRA ANIMALS...", WHAT?, compared to FAKE Sierra animals? These books are not like Roger's art which is based on REAL Yosemite (Paiute) Indians and Andrews' text which is based on REAL Yosemite (Paiute) Indians, not about 'fables' and 'myths' of "Yosemite Miwoks". I didn't know bears winnowed acorns, but I sure know Yosemite Paiutes did.

Note about the "Yosemite Miwok Legends" years later C. Hart Merriam, the man who collected the 'legends', later acknowledged that the legends he collected were in fact Western Valley Yokut tales, and not Miwok.

Meanwhile the art of Roger Salas and the genealogical text of David Andrews is done by descendents of Yosemite Indians, the two "Yosemite Miwoks" books were written and drawn by NON-Yosemite Indians, who have no tribal or ancestral ties to Yosemite.

This is the true irony of all this. So where is Heyday's books about the Paiutes of Yosemite, like Chief Tenaya and his band?

"Fables, Myths and Legends" are different then true historical facts and ancestry of the Indians of Yosemite area.

Congrats to Roger Salas and David Andrews, but just something that caught my eye.

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