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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.
Classical anthropologists recorded a number of specific Plains Miwok villages, but it remained for work by Bennyhoff in the 1950s and 1960s to recognize multi-village territorial local tribes as the signature land-use organization of the Plains Miwok. The published specific village locations were:
The village of Olompali dates back to 500, had been a main center in 1200, and might have been the largest Miwok village in Marin County. [42] Ynitia held onto the Rancho Olompoli land title for nine years, but in 1852 he sold most of the land to James Black of Marin. [42] He retained 1,480 acres (6.0 km 2) called Apalacocha.
Mi-Wuk Village is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tuolumne County, California, United States. The population was 941 at the 2010 census, down from 1,485 at the 2000 census. It was named after the Miwok Indians by the real estate developer and promoter Harry Hoeffler in 1955. [3] [4] [5]
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 Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians reclaimed a piece of its lost history Tuesday by purchasing landmark property in downtown ... which is near the tribe’s original village of Pusúune, is ...
The original Lake Miwok people world view included Shamanism, one form this took was the Kuksu religion that was evident in Central and Northern California, which included elaborate acting and dancing ceremonies in traditional costume, an annual mourning ceremony, puberty rites of passage, shamanic intervention with the spirit world and an all-male society that met in subterranean dance rooms.
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