enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. California breaks ground on Native American monument - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/california-breaks-ground-native...

    State and tribal officials gathered Monday to break ground on a statue of the late William Franklin Sr., a well-known member of the Miwok tribe who worked to preserve the tribe culture, including ...

  3. Southern Sierra Miwok - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Sierra_Miwok

    Southern Sierra Miwok is a member of the Miwok language family. 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]

  4. Plains and Sierra Miwok - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_and_Sierra_Miwok

    Other Miwok peoples: Coast Miwok, Lake Miwok, and Bay Miwok The Plains and Sierra Miwok were once the largest group of California Indian Miwok people , Indigenous to California . Their homeland included regions of the Sacramento Valley , San Joaquin Valley , and the Sierra Nevada .

  5. California Valley Miwok Tribe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Valley_Miwok_Tribe

    The California Valley Miwok Tribe is a federally recognized tribe of Miwok people in San Joaquin County and Calaveras County, California. [3] [4] They were previously known as the Sheep Ranch Rancheria [5] or the Sheep Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indian of California. [6] The California Valley Miwok are Sierra Miwok, an Indigenous people of ...

  6. Chamaebatia foliolosa - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaebatia_foliolosa

    The Miwok tribe's name for the plant was kit-kit-dizze. [2] It was used as an herbal remedy for colds, coughs, rheumatism, chicken pox, measles, smallpox and other diseases. [ 3 ] The name mountain misery comes from the gold rush when early pioneers would trip and fall from the dense stinky brush.

  7. Miwok - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miwok

    Benjamin Barry (Miwok), World War II veteran and fire chief in parade dress [17] In 1770, there were an estimated 500 Lake Miwok, 1,500 Coast Miwok, and 9,000 Plains and Sierra Miwok, totaling about 11,000 people, according to historian Alfred L. Kroeber, although this may be a serious undercount; for example, he did not identify the Bay Miwok ...

  8. Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Indians_of_G...

    The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, [1] formerly known as the Federated Coast Miwok, is a federally recognized American Indian tribe of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo Indians. [2] The tribe was officially restored to federal recognition in 2000 by the U.S. government pursuant to the Graton Rancheria Restoration Act.

  9. CalPERS sells major, long-vacant lot in downtown ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/calpers-sells-major-long-vacant...

    The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians reclaimed a piece of its lost history Tuesday by purchasing landmark property in downtown Sacramento’s entryway — a lot once planned for ambitious ...