Julia F. Parker (Pomo) is one of the preeminent California Indian basket makers. She has spent most of her years living and working in Yosemite Village in California.  Although she was born in her native Pomo territory, her early teachers were elder Indian traditionalists and basketweavers of the Sierra Miwok and Mono Lake Paiute people.  After her mother's death when Parker was five, she and her siblings were placed in a foster home and later sent to Stewart Indian School near Carson City, Nevada.  With master elders as her teachers, most significantly Ralph's mother, Parker later began demonstrating basketweaving in Yosemite Park and beyond. Parker's work has been featured at the National Museum of the American Indian, the Heard Museum, and the National Museum of Natural History.  In 1983 when Queen Elizabeth II visited Yosemite, Parker gave her one of her baskets and today it is in the Queen's Museum in Windsor Castle.  Parker has been a central figure in the organization and ongoing activities of the California Indian Basketweavers Association.

Lucy Parker, descended from the Kashaya Pomo, Yosemite Miwok, Mono Lake Paiute and Coast Miwok people, comes from a long line of basket makers. She is a great granddaughter of expert weaver and innovator Lucy Tom Telles (Yosemite Miwok – Paiute). As a young child in Yosemite National Park, Lucy began learning basket weaving and other key cultural skills. She works closely with her mother, Julia F. Parker (Pomo). Lucy is an active demonstrator and lecturer in the Yosemite area near her home and throughout California and the United States. Her baskets are in notable museum collections including the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Lucy works with park services and land management organizations educating the public and government agencies and advocating for the protection and preservation of traditional land management for weaving and gathering sites.