Ione is the historical home of Sierra Miwok people, an indigenous people of California.

The name " Hetch Hetchy " comes from the Native American Sierra Miwok language and refers to a grass with edible seeds that grows in the valley.

* Plains and Sierra Miwok: from the western slope and foothills of the Sierra Nevada, the Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

In 1770, there were an estimated 500 Lake Miwok, 1, 500 Coast Miwok, and 9, 000 Plains and Sierra Miwok, totaling about 11, 000 people, according to historian Alfred L. Kroeber, although this may be a serious undercount ; for example, he did not identify the Bay Miwok.

One might suspect that the full corpus of Bay Miwok mythology and sacred narrative shared the motifs that the linguistically related and better-documented ethnographic Coast Miwok and Sierra Miwok held in common.

The Sierra and Plains Miwok, as well as the Bay Miwok, believed this world began at Mount Diablo, following a flood.

) Alfred L. Kroeber put the 1770 population of the Plains and Sierra Miwok ( but excluding the Bay Miwok, about whom he was not aware ) at 9, 000.

Richard Levy estimated 19, 500 people for all five Eastern Miwok groups as a whole ( Bay, Plains, Northern Sierra, Central Sierra, and Southern Sierra ) prior to Spanish contact, and 1, 700 specifically for the Bay Miwok.

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** Valley and Sierra Miwok

Parts of the Atlas Mountains in North Africa, the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges of Syria, Israel and Lebanon, the Jebel Akhdar ( Oman ) in Oman, parts of the Sierra Nevada and neighboring ranges in the United States ' Southwest, have shallow aquifers that are exploited for their water.

Mather, a self-made millionaire and member of the Sierra Club, had written Lane a bitter letter in late 1914, complaining that the national parks were being exploited for private profit.

By the time people started to settle Yosemite Valley 3, 000 years ago, vegetation and game in the region was similar to that present today ; the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada had acorns, deer, and salmon, while the eastern Sierra had pinyon nuts and obsidian.

Like other Sierra Nevada people, their staple food were acorns, but they also hunted and gathered for other foods from the environment in which they lived.

Aristide Devol, the sardonic manservant who had been brought in chains years before from his native Sierra Leone, smiled thinly and touched his well-brushed beaver hat.

The Atlantic's width varies from between Brazil and Sierra Leone to over in the south.

* 1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Sierra Leone from United Kingdom in 1961.

A bongo drinks from a swamp. Angola, Benin extinct ?, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d ' Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya ( the only place where the eastern bongo are found in the wild ), Liberia, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo extinct?

Sierra Leone was largely colonized by Calvinist settlers from Nova Scotia, who were largely Black Loyalists, blacks who had fought for the British during the American War of Independence.

A wooden flume was also built from the Sierra Nevadas into Carson City.

Another branch, Cordillera Oriental or Sierra del Seibo, is separated from the main chain by a karstic region ( Los Haitises ) and with a west-east direction ; it is located south of Samaná Bay.

The Inca civilization expansion northward from modern-day Peru during the late 15th century met with fierce resistance by several Ecuadorian tribes, particularly the Cañari, in the region around modern-day Cuenca ; the Cara in the Sierra north of Quito along with the Quitu, occupants of the site of the modern capital, with whom they had formed the Kingdom of Quito.

After a number of initial successes, Sucre's army was defeated at Ambato in the central Sierra and he appealed for assistance from San Martín, whose army was by now in Peru.

Groups such as the Sierra Club shifted focus from local issues to becoming a lobby in Washington and new groups, for example, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense, arose to influence politics as well.

In 1899, the banana industry in Honduras was growing rapidly and the peaceful transfer of power from Policarpo Bonilla to General Terencio Sierra would mark the first time in decades that such a constitutional transition had taken place.

High Sierra, a 1941 movie directed by Raoul Walsh, had a screenplay written by Bogart's friend and drinking partner, John Huston, adapted from the novel by W. R. Burnett ( Little Caesar, etc .).

from the trailer of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( film ) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 )

This is caused by the north winds coming from the high tips of Sierra Nevada.

Those Maroons, first shipped from Jamaica to Nova Scotia, eventually became part of the core of the Creole community of Sierra Leone.

It is one of only two sovereign states in the world that were started by citizens of a political power as a colony for former slaves of the same political power: Sierra Leone was begun as a colony for resettlement of Black Loyalists and poor blacks from England for the same purpose by Britain.

Under international pressure, President Sirleaf requested in March 2006 that Nigeria extradite Charles Taylor, who was then brought before an international tribunal in Sierra Leone to face charges of crimes against humanity, arising from events during the Sierra Leone civil war ( his trial was later transferred to The Hague for security purposes ).

By 1992, 120, 000 people had fled from Sierra Leone to Guinea due to the RUF's practice of targeting civilians.

Between Guajará-Mirim and the falls of Teotônio, the Madeira receives the drainage of the north-eastern slopes of the Andes from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Cuzco, the whole of the south-western slope of Brazilian Mato Grosso and the northern slope of the Chiquitos sierras.

They are found in coastal marine and estuarine habitats, and in freshwater river systems along the west coast of Africa from the Senegal River south to the Kwanza River in Angola, including areas in Gambia, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Côte d ' Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

* 1991 – The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor ’ s National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.

* Dardanelles Cone, a mountain peak in the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness of the Stanislaus National Forest in the Sierra Nevada, California

* C. l. ochropus: California Valley coyote – California west of the Sierra Nevada

With the consolidation, the city limits today extend west across the Sierra Nevada to the California state line in the middle of Lake Tahoe.

* California interior chaparral and woodlands: In central interior California surrounding the Central Valley, covering the foothills and lower slopes of the northeastern Transverse Ranges and the western Sierra Nevada range.

Cismontane chaparral (" this side of the mountain ") refers to a chaparral ecosystem in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Biome in California, growing on the western ( and coastal ) sides of large mountain range systems, such as: western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in the San Joaquin Valley foothills, western slopes of the Peninsular Ranges and California Coast Ranges, and south-southwest slopes of the Transverse Ranges in the Central Coast and Southern California regions.

Gabbro specimen ; Rock Creek Canyon, eastern Sierra Nevada ( U. S .) | Sierra Nevada, California.

Close-up of gabbro specimen ; Rock Creek Canyon, eastern Sierra Nevada, California.

Gabbro as a xenolith in a granite, eastern Sierra Nevada ( U. S .) | Sierra Nevada, Rock Creek Canyon, California.

* 1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.

Obsidian flows which may be hiked on are found within the calderas of Newberry Volcano and Medicine Lake Volcano in the Cascade Range of western North America, and at Inyo Craters east of the Sierra Nevada in California.

Another example is the archeological recovery at coastal Chumash sites in California indicating considerable trade with the distant site of Casa Diablo, California in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean.

" Peckinpah Meadow and Peckinpah Creek, where the family ran a lumber mill on a mountain in the High Sierra north of Coarsegold, California, have been officially named on U. S. geographical maps.

With a team consisting of many stellar young rookies such as Rubén Sierra, Pete Incaviglia, Mitch Williams, Bobby Witt, and Edwin Correa, the Rangers finished the season 2nd place with an outstanding 87 – 75 record, just five games behind the division champion California Angels.

* May 28 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.

These California bound emigrants became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846 – 1847, and some had resorted to cannibalism to survive.

The Central Pacific laid 690 miles ( 1, 100 km ) of track, starting in Sacramento, California, and continuing over the Sierra Nevada mountains into Nevada.

Judah undertook to survey and plan a way through what was one of the chief obstacles of a central route to California: a way over the high and rugged Sierra Nevada mountains.