Miwok
[mee-wok]
- 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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The Miwok panther doctor was similarly met and instructed by a panther.
Pomo Bear DoctorsSamuel Alfred Barrett
It has only seemed feasible to append some comparisons with Yuki and Miwok beliefs.
Pomo Bear DoctorsSamuel Alfred Barrett
Among the Maidu they are usually known as "burning," among the Miwok as "cry."
The Religion of the Indians of CaliforniaA. L. Kroeber
To Elmendorf and me it "sounds" like the Coast Miwok word for chief or friend.
Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579Robert F. Heizer
The 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 DoctorsSamuel Alfred Barrett