Miwok

[mee-wok]

noun

plural

Miwoks ,

plural

Miwok .

1. 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.

2. any of the Penutian languages spoken by the Miwok.

Example Sentences

The creation of Yosemite National Park in 1890 gradually pushed out the Southern Sierra Miwok people, also known as the Ahwahneechee.

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The art of making nupa survives today because the Miwok and Nisenan made sure that each child was taught these kinds of ancient customs.

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Their numbers were controlled by human hunting for millennia, first by the Coast Miwok people, and then by the U.S.

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Staff detailed Spanish missionaries exploiting the work of Indigenous people in the Bay Area to build California missions and congressional actions stripping Coast Miwok people of title to their ancestral lands, including Muir Woods.

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Malissa Tayaba, vice chair of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, said the project would harm the region and her tribe.

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