Talk:Tenaya Lake
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Chief Tenaya spoke Paiute. In Lafayette Bunnell's book "Discovery of the Yosemite and the Indian War of 1851 which led to that event" Bunnell writes that Chief Tenaya spoke a "Piute Jargon" and "Tenaya, the founder of the Piute colony of Ahwahni". Which would indicate that Chief Tenaya was a Paiute. The real meaning of Tenaya Lake would be "Water grass" named after a plant or "Water acorn".
