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The United States Bureau of Indian Affairs officially recognizes eleven tribes of Miwok descent in California. They are as follows: Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians [3] California Valley Miwok Tribe, formerly known as the Sheep Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians [4] [5] Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians
Language of the Sierra Miwok. (Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics, Memoir 6.) Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Golla, Victor. 2011. California Indian languages. Berkeley: University of California Press. Northern Miwok Indians. "Rodriguez-Nieto Guide" Sound Recordings (California Indian Library Collections), LA007, LA140 ...
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 ...
Southern Sierra Miwok (also known as Meewoc, Mewoc, Me-Wuk, Miwoc, Miwokan, Mokélumne, Moquelumnan, San Raphael, Talatui, Talutui, and Yosemite) is a Utian language spoken by the Native American people called the Southern Sierra Miwok of Northern California. Southern Sierra Miwok is a member of the Miwok language family.
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).
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 California; Monache, Western Mono, central California [1]
Central Sierra Miwok is a Miwok language spoken in California, in the upper Stanislaus and Tuolumne valleys. Today it is spoken by the Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California , a federally recognized tribe of Central Sierra Miwoks.
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.