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

Back before California was settled by Europeans and others, the Miwok and Nisenan subsisted on a hunter-gatherer diet of acorns, venison, salmon, pine nuts, elderberries, and other berries and plants.

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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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For centuries, the Miwok, a people indigenous to Northern California, relied on acorns as a central part of their diet.

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