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Coast Miwok people's world view included animism, and one form this took was the Kuksu religion that was evident in Central and Northern California. This 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 ...
Coast Miwok traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Coast Miwok people of the central California coast immediately north of San Francisco Bay. Coast Miwok oral literature shares many characteristics of central California narratives, including that of their linguistic kinsmen the Lake , Plains ...
Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria people (2 P) Pages in category "Coast Miwok people" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Benjamin Barry (Miwok), World War II veteran and fire chief in parade dress [17] In 1770, there were an estimated 500 Lake Miwok, 1,500 Coast Miwok, and 9,000 Plains and Sierra Miwok, totaling about 11,000 people, according to historian Alfred L. Kroeber, although this may be a serious undercount; for example, he did not identify the Bay Miwok ...
The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, [1] formerly known as the Federated Coast Miwok, is a federally recognized American Indian tribe of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo Indians. [2] The tribe was officially restored to federal recognition in 2000 by the U.S. government pursuant to the Graton Rancheria Restoration Act. [3] [4]
Several creation fragments exist detailing Coyote's place in the family of the "first spirits" on earth. According to the Coast Miwok, Coyote was the declared grandfather of the Falcon. There existed animal spirits and a few star-people spirits. [3] From the Sacramento river area the Miwok gave the following names of the first spirits:
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] Mono, eastern-central California; Nomlaki, northwestern ...
Coast Miwok people (1 C, 8 P) F. Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Coast Miwok" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 ...