Miwok
[ mee-wok ]
/ ˈmi wɒk /
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noun, plural Mi·woks, (especially collectively) Mi·wok for 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.
any of the Penutian languages spoken by the Miwok.
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