Miwok
a member of an American Indian people formerly living in several noncontiguous areas of California north of San Francisco Bay and eastward from the San Joaquin-Sacramento delta to the Sierras.
any of the Penutian languages spoken by the Miwok.
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How to use Miwok in a sentence
One informant ascribed the source of Pomo bear doctor knowledge to the Lake Miwok, to the south.
Pomo Bear Doctors | Samuel Alfred BarrettThe Miwok relate how a man was hunting in the chaparral south of the Stanislaus when a bear appeared and asked what he was doing.
Pomo Bear Doctors | Samuel Alfred BarrettThe visitors of the 18th and 21st would be Bodega Coast Miwok.
Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579 | Robert F. HeizerThe Pohinichi should be excluded since they have already been considered in connection with the southern Miwok.
The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California | Sherburne F. CookThe average of the population calculated by the two methods is 2,008, very close to that found for the central Miwok.
The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California | Sherburne F. Cook
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