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The Miwok (also spelled Miwuk, Mi-Wuk, or Me-Wuk) are members of four linguistically related Native American groups indigenous to what is now Northern California, who traditionally spoke one of the Miwok languages in the Utian family. The word Miwok means people in the Miwok languages. [citation needed]
Language family by Mithun (1999): [4] Eastern Miwok Plains Miwok † Bay Miwok (a.k.a. Saclan) † Sierra Miwok. Northern Sierra Miwok (†) (Camanche, Fiddletown, Ione, and West Point dialects) Central Sierra Miwok (nearly extinct) (East Central and West Central dialects) Southern Sierra Miwok (nearly extinct) (Yosemite, Mariposa, and Southern ...
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 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 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.
Wilton Rancheria is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Miwok people based in northern California. [1] They were formed from Wilton Rancheria Miwok and the Me-Wuk Indian Community of the Wilton Rancheria. [2]
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]
As early as 1830, a Filipino named Domingo Felix married a Coast Miwok woman named Euphrasia Valencia, and they started a family who later settled in Lairds Landing in 1861. [8] [9] The family who descended from this multiracial couple remained there until 1955. [8] Some of the Coast Miwok trace their lineage to this couple. [10]