Julia Parker discovered her talent and passion for weaving from an unexpected source. When Julia Parker was first approached to demonstrate native basket weaving at Yosemite National Park, she thought the idea was crazy. “I’m not indigenous,” protested Julia, noting she came from northern California’s Kashia Pomo tribe, not the park’s Miwok-Paiutes
August 2010
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- Caught With His Pants Down?
- One Basket at a Time
- Rediscovering the O.K. Corral
- Buffalo, Wyoming
- Waddie Mitchell
- Equitrekking the American West
- A Cowboy Classic is Created
- Following John Wesley Hardin Across Texas
- A Cure for Baldness?
- The Myth of the Single Shot Kill
- The Genesis of Jeans
- From Baxter Black to the Powwow Idol
- “He’s No Parlor Car Artist”
- Lone Star Vodka
- Whatever happened to Johnny Ringo’s guns?
- A few years back, we visited a Kansas site called “Little House on the Prairie.”
- What does the word “tinhorn” mean?
- What can you share about Judge Roy Bean?
- Did trail drives ever intersect?
- Where did the term “chuckwagon” come from?