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Miwok

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.

For other uses, see Miwok (disambiguation).

: from the western slope and foothills of the Sierra Nevada, the Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Plains and Sierra Miwok

: from present day location of Marin County and southern Sonoma County (includes the Bodega Bay Miwok and Marin Miwok)

Coast Miwok

: from Clear Lake basin of Lake County

Lake Miwok

: from present-day location of Contra Costa County

Bay Miwok

Anthropologists commonly divide the Miwok into four geographically and culturally diverse ethnic subgroups. These distinctions were not used among the Miwok before European contact.[2]

[3]

Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians

formerly known as the Sheep Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians[4][5]

California Valley Miwok Tribe

Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians

formerly known as the Federated Coast Miwok[6]

Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria

of Ione, California[7]

Ione Band of Miwok Indians

[8]

Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians

(members of this tribe are of Pomo, Lake Miwok, and Wintun descent)

Middletown Rancheria

[9]

Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract)

Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria

[10]

United Auburn Indian Community of Auburn Rancheria

[11]

Wilton Rancheria Indian Tribe

Influences on popular culture[edit]

The Star Wars films feature a fictional species of forest-dwelling creatures known as Ewoks, who are ostensibly named after the Miwok.[19]


The Miwok people are encountered in Kim Stanley Robinson's book The Years of Rice and Salt. In an alternate history scenario depicted in the book, they are the first group of Native Americans encountered by the first Chinese to discover the continent.

Kule Loklo

Saklan

Lucy Shepard Freeland

Lucy Telles

Utian languages

. Retrieved on 2006-08-01. Main source of "authenticated village" names and locations.

Access Genealogy: Indian Tribal records, Miwok Indian Tribe

Barrett, S.A. and Gifford, E.W. Miwok Material Culture: Indian Life of the Yosemite Region. Yosemite Association, Yosemite National Park, California, 1933.  0-939666-12-X

ISBN

Cook, Sherburne. The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1976.  0-520-03143-1.

ISBN

Kroeber, Alfred L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Washington, D.C: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. (Chapter 30, The Miwok); available at .

Yosemite Online Library

Silliman, Stephen. Lost Laborers in Colonial California, Native Americans and the Archaeology of Rancho Petaluma. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2004.  0-8165-2381-9.

ISBN

Miwok Bibliography

California Historical Society:The First Californians, The Miwok

(map after Kroeber)

Native Tribes, Groups, Language Families and Dialects of California in 1770

from Angel Island State Park

Tribe information

U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs

Short radio episode from Coast Miwok lore in Californian Indian Nights Entertainments, 1930, California Legacy Projec.

Mouse Steals Fire

Mewuktribe.com