Editing Ahwahnechee (section)

{{Short description|Native American tribe in Yosemite Valley, California, U.S.}}
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{{Infobox ethnic group
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| native_name      = 
| native_name_lang = 
| image            = Image:Bierstadt Albert Mariposa Indian Encampment Yosemite Valley California.jpg
| image_caption    = Painting of a "Mariposa Indian Encampment, Yosemite Valley, California" by [[Albert Bierstadt]], ca. 1872
| image_alt        = 19th-century painting of campsite
| image_upright    = 
| total            = unknown
| total_year       = 1911
| total_source     = Hodge, p. 118
| total_ref        = 
| regions          = Yosemite Valley, [[California]]
| languages        = [[Mono language (California)|Mono Language]] [[Southern Sierra Miwok language]]
| religions        =
| related_groups   = other [[Plains_and_Sierra_Miwok]] and [[Mono people]]<ref name=surviving/>
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The '''Ahwahnechee''', '''Awani''', or '''Awalache''' were an [[Indigenous people of California]] who historically lived in the [[Yosemite Valley]].<ref name="hodge1911">{{cite book |last1=Hodge |first1=Frederick Webb |title=Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Part 1 |date=1911 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington, DC |pages=118–119 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ze4YAAAAYAAJ}}</ref> They were a band of [[Mono people|Mono]]<ref name=hodge1911/> and [[Plains_and_Sierra_Miwok#Southern_Sierra_Miwok|Miwok People]].

The Awani people's heritage can be found all over [[Yosemite National Park]].<ref name="nps">{{cite web|title=Yosemite Indians |url=https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/historyculture/yosemite-indians.htm|access-date=2021-08-18|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>{{sfn|Bunnell|1892|loc=ch. XVIII}}<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Fragnoli|first=Delaine|date=December 2004|title=Naming yosemite|magazine= ATQ: The American Transcendental Quarterly|volume= 18|issue=4|pages=263–275}}</ref>