Miwok
Americannoun
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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.
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any of the Penutian languages spoken by the Miwok.
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The creation of Yosemite National Park in 1890 gradually pushed out the Southern Sierra Miwok people, also known as the Ahwahneechee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
“We need more California water leaders like Adel, not less,” Krystal Moreno of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
The Miwok who lived in the Sierra Nevada foothills would smash acorns against limestone, leaving holes in the rock over time.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
“It’s had a huge impact on tribes,” said Malissa Tayaba, vice chair of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2022
The territory of the northern Miwok, from the ecological standpoint resembles closely that of the central Miwok.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
He provisioned his ship and gave to the Coast Miwoks who greeted him pieces of blue-and- white Chinese porcelain that he had evidently “liberated” from the Spanish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025
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