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Access Genealogy: Indian Tribal records, Miwok Indian Tribe. Retrieved on 2006-08-01. Main source of "authenticated village" names and locations. 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.
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).
European-American contact began after 1833. In 1850 a settler named James D. Savage set up a mining camp down below the valley, and spent most of his time mining for gold and trading with the few other white men in the area. He took several Indian wives and developed influential relations with the nearby Native people.
Ione is the historical home of the Sierra Miwok Indians.In 1840, the future town site became part of the Mexican land grant Rancho Arroyo Seco in Alta California.. The town is located in the fertile Ione Valley; it is believed to have been named by Thomas Brown around 1849 after one of the heroines in Edward Bulwer-Lytton ' s drama The Last Days of Pompeii, but conflicting legends and sources ...
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.
The extensive network of waterways in and around Stockton was fished and navigated by Miwok Indians for centuries. During the California Gold Rush, the San Joaquin River was navigable by ocean-going vessels, making Stockton a natural inland seaport and point of supply and departure for prospective gold-miners. From the mid-19th century onward ...
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By the end of 1835, Plains Miwok was the native language of 60% of the Indian people at the mission. Between 1834 and 1838 the Alta California missions were secularized (closed as religious and agricultural communes).