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The Plains and Sierra Miwok traditionally lived in the western Sierra Nevada between the Fresno River and Cosumnes River, in the eastern Central Valley of California.As well as in the northern Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta region at the confluences of the Cosumnes River, Mokelumne River, and Sacramento River.
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 ...
Northern Sierra Miwok is a Miwok language spoken in California, in the upper Mokelumne and Calaveras valleys. [1] Phonology. Consonants [2] Bilabial Dental Alveolar
Konkow, northern California; Mechoopda, northern California; Nisenan, Southern Maidu, eastern-central California [1] Miwok, Me-wuk, central California [1] Coast Miwok, west-central California [1] Lake Miwok, west-central California [1] Saklan, west-central California [5] Valley and Sierra Miwok, eastern-central California; Mohave, southeastern ...
[12] [13] A Southern Sierra Miwok name for the mountain is Supemenenu, and a Northern Sierra Miwok name is Oj·ompil·e. [13] It has also been suggested that another early Native American name for the mountain was Kawukum or Kahwookum, but there is no evidence to confirm the assertion.
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 ...
The Bay Miwok are a cultural and linguistic group of Miwok, a Native American people in Northern California who live in Contra Costa County.They joined the Franciscan mission system during the early nineteenth century, suffered a devastating population decline, and lost their language as they intermarried with other native California ethnic groups and learned the Spanish language.
The Miwok or Miwokan languages (/ ˈ m iː w ɒ k /; [1] Northern 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 ...