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
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
EARTHseed’s setting — on the ancestral homeland of the Coastal Miwok and Southern Pomo tribes — is a sacred space for Black people to learn strategies for resilience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, for example, said harmful algal blooms have prevented them from performing cultural and religious practices in the waters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2022
Kroeber's account, which accompanies his discussion of the Plains Miwok and northern Yokuts in the Handbook of California Indians, is manifestly incomplete.
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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