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Wonder is a 2017 American coming of age comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Chbosky, who co-wrote the screenplay with Steven Conrad and Jack Thorne. It is based on the 2012 novel by R. J. Palacio and stars Julia Roberts , Owen Wilson , Jacob Tremblay , Mandy Patinkin , and Daveed Diggs .
Miwok myths suggest their spiritual and philosophical world view. In several different creation stories collected from Miwok people, Coyote was seen as their ancestor and creator god, sometimes with the help of other animals, forming the earth and making people out of humble materials like feathers or twigs. [1]
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 ...
The Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California is a federally recognized tribe of Miwok in Amador County, California. [1] [2] The Buena Vista Miwok are Sierra Miwok, an indigenous people of California. [3]
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 .
The Wonder is a 2022 period psychological drama film directed by Sebastián Lelio. Emma Donoghue , Lelio, and Alice Birch wrote the screenplay based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Donoghue. Set shortly after the Great Famine , it follows an English nurse sent to a rural Irish village to observe a young ' fasting girl ', who is seemingly ...
The Miwok or Miwokan languages (/ ˈ m iː w ɒ k /; [1] North Sierra Miwok: [míwːɨːk]), also known as Moquelumnan or Miwuk, are a group of endangered languages spoken in central California by the Miwok peoples, ranging from the Bay Area to the Sierra Nevada. There are seven Miwok languages, four of which have distinct regional dialects. [2]
Central Sierra Miwok is a Miwok language spoken in California, in the upper Stanislaus and Tuolumne valleys. Today it is spoken by the Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California , a federally recognized tribe of Central Sierra Miwoks.