Big Sandy Rancheria Of Mono Indians
The Mono ( ) are a Native American people who traditionally live in the central Sierra Nevada, the Eastern Sierra (generally south of Bridgeport), the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin. The Eastern mono is often grouped under the historical label "Paiute" together with the Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute - They speak dialects of Mono a Numic .language closely Related to Northern Paiute and Bannock . The Eastern Mono Was renamed to Owens valley Paiute and Are now considered a Northern paiute people that speak the Eastern Mono Language with multiple dialects in the Owens Valley. Today, many of the tribal citizens and descendants of the Mono tribe inhabit the town of North Fork (thus the label "Northfork Mono") in Madera County. People of the Mono tribe are also spread across California .The Formerly known Eastern mono in the Owens River Valley are known as Owens Valley Paiute due to there close relation with the Northern Paiutes of Nevada .The western mono ar ...
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Photograph With Text Of A Mono Couple Living Near Northfork, California
A photograph (also known as a photo, image, or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are now created using a smartphone/camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography. Etymology The word ''photograph'' was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light," and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing," together meaning "drawing with light." History The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce. The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at Le Gras, Fra ...
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