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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]
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
The majority of the members of the Plains Miwok local tribes moved to colonial Franciscan Mission San José, in some cases through attraction and in other cases through intimidation, between 1812 and 1833. By 1815 they represented 14% of the Indian people at that mission, and by 1830 they had reached 42% of the mission's population.
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] It regained recognition in 2009.
The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians reclaimed a piece of its lost history Tuesday by purchasing landmark property in downtown Sacramento’s entryway — a lot once planned for ambitious ...
The United Auburn Indian Community (UAIC) is a federally recognized Native America tribe consisting mostly of Miwok Indians indigenous to the Sacramento Valley region. Location of the Auburn Rancheria. The historic Auburn Rancheria is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Auburn, in Placer County, California.