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2. The life and times of a hole in the ground on Sacramento’s ...

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   As the Gold Rush continued to drive up the price of land, U.S. senators met in 1852 to consider the treaties. ... Miwok Indians buy back the land. In a full-circle moment, the Shingle Springs Band ...

3. Southern Sierra Miwok - Wikipedia

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   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. Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California

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   The Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California is a federally recognized tribe of Miwok people in Tuolumne County, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Chicken Ranch Rancheria Miwok are central Sierra Miwok , an Indigenous people of California .

5. Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California

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   The tribe has been federally recognized since 1985. In 1970, President Richard Nixon declared the Rancheria Act a failure. The Buena Vista Rancheria tribe joined 16 other native California tribes in a class action lawsuit, Tillie Hardwick v. United States to restore their sovereignty, and in 1987, the tribes won their lawsuit. On 22 December ...

6. Miwok - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. California breaks ground on Native American monument - AOL

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   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 ...

8. Ione Band of Miwok Indians - Wikipedia

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   European contact came in the 19th century, when Spanish explorers descended upon Miwok lands. They enslaved thousands of Native Americans during the mission system period. Smallpox and other epidemics hit the Miwok between 1820 and 1840, which drastically reduced the Native American population. Before the Spanish first landed on California soil ...

9. Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria - Wikipedia

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   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.