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The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1976. ISBN 0-520-03143-1. Kroeber, Alfred L. 1907. The Religion of the Indians of California, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 4:#6.
Barrett, S.A. and Gifford, E.W. Miwok Material Culture: Indian Life of the Yosemite Region. Yosemite Association, Yosemite National Park, California, 1933. ISBN 0-939666-12-X; Cook, Sherburne. The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1976. ISBN 0-520-03143-1.
Before the Spanish first landed on California soil, there were about 22,000 Miwoks within the region; today there are about 750. [6] John Sutter built his fort in 1839 and continued enslaving Indians. He raided around Ione. The 1848–50 California Gold Rush brought an onslaught of non-Native people into the region. [1]
January 2007: Construction halts on 53-story hotel and condominium project. In September 2006, the city of Sacramento had approved an $11 million subsidy for the hotel portion after Saca ...
Long before California got its name, the Miwok Indians hunted and fished along the banks of what would become known as the Sacramento River — including a spot where the state Capitol now stands ...
The Miwok languages are a part of the larger Utian family. The original territory of the Southern Sierra Miwok people is similar to modern day Mariposa County, California. The Southern Sierra Miwok language is nearly extinct with only a few speakers existing today. [2] However, as of 2012, an active revitalization program is underway. [3]
The original 1990 general plan made little mention of the Indigenous communities — Miwok and Nisenan communities, among other tribes — that called the land home prior to John Sutter’s ...
A sketch of a traditional native lodge near Colvin, California c. 1852. The California Gold Rush was the conflict that caused the California genocide. [4] By the end of May 1849, more than 40,000 gold seekers had used the California Trail to enter northern and central California which had been up until then populated by Native Americans and Californios (the descendants of early Spanish settlers).