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Yosemite National Park 1 2 Miwok Indians in front of Umacha teepee, Yosemite National Park, 1925 For thousands of years, the Ahwaneechee Indians occupied the area we know today as Yosemite. In 1851, the first white men entered the Yosemite valley searching for Indians with the aim of driving them from their homeland. One of the men, a young doctor named Lafayette Bunnell, was struck by the astonishing beauty of the place. He named the area Yosemite, mistakenly believing it to be the name of the tribe living there. In 1855, a second group of white people led by James Mason Hutchings enter