• Coast Miwok was one of the Miwok languages spoken in California, from San Francisco Bay to Bodega Bay. The Marin and Bodega varieties may have been separate...
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    The Miwok or Miwokan languages (/ˈmiːwɒk/; North Sierra Miwok: [míwːɨːk]), also known as Moquelumnan or Miwuk, are a group of endangered languages spoken...
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    with the term Miwok itself, which is the Central Sierra Miwok word for 'people'. The Coast Miwok spoke their own Coast Miwok language in the Utian linguistic...
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    Miwok languages in the Utian family. The word Miwok means people in the Miwok languages.[citation needed] Anthropologists commonly divide the Miwok into...
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  • Tribe Miwok languages Bay Miwok language Coast Miwok language Lake Miwok language Sierra Miwok language Northern Sierra Miwok Central Sierra Miwok Southern...
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    (also Miwok–Costanoan or Miwok,Ohlone previously Mutsun) is a family of Indigenous languages spoken in Northern California, United States. The Miwok and...
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  • Plains Miwok, also known as Valley Miwok, was one of the Miwok languages spoken in central California by the Plains Miwok people. It was spoken in the...
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  • Miwok language is an extinct language of Northern California, traditionally spoken in an area adjacent to the Clear Lake. It is one of the languages of...
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  • Bay Miwok (Saclan, Saklan) was one of the Miwok languages spoken in California, around San Francisco Bay. All of the population has shifted to English...
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  • and lost their language as they intermarried with other native California ethnic groups and learned the Spanish language. The Bay Miwok were not recognized...
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    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...
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    Mount Tamalpais (category Articles containing Coast Miwok-language text)
    that the Spanish missionaries gave to the Coast Miwok people. Another holds that the name is the Coast Miwok word for "sleeping maiden" and is taken from...
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    Petaluma, California (category Articles containing Coast Miwok-language text)
    of Sonoma County. The Coast Miwok resided throughout Marin and southern Sonoma County. The village of Péta Lúuma (Coast Miwok for "backside of the hill"...
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  • The California Valley Miwok Tribe is a federally recognized tribe of Miwok people in San Joaquin County and Calaveras County, California. They were previously...
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  • Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California is a federally recognized tribe. The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians...
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    The Plains and Sierra Miwok were once the largest group of California Indian Miwok people, Indigenous to California. Their homeland included regions of...
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    people. Along with the Miwok languages, they are members of the Utian language family. The most recent work suggests that Ohlone, Miwok, and Yokuts are branches...
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  • The Ione Band of Miwok Indians is a federally recognized tribe of Miwok people in Amador County, California. As of the 2010 census the population was only...
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  • Northern Sierra Miwok is a Miwok language spoken in California, in the upper Mokelumne and Calaveras valleys. taken from loan words taken from loan words...
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  • the Southern Sierra Miwok of Northern California. Southern Sierra Miwok is a member of the Miwok language family. The Miwok languages are a part of the...
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  • Rancheria, formerly known as the Federated Coast Miwok, is a federally recognized American Indian tribe of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo Indians. The tribe...
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  • The Alutiiq language (also called Sugpiak, Sugpiaq, Sugcestun, Suk, Supik, Pacific Gulf Yupik, Gulf Yupik, Koniag-Chugach) is a close relative to the Central...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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    Lagunitas Creek (category Articles containing Coast Miwok-language text)
    Tamalpais that supply a major portion of the county's drinking water. To the Coast Miwok the stream was known as Tokelalume, then by the Spanish as Arroyo de...
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    The Lake Miwok are a branch of the Miwok, a Native American people of Northern California. The Lake Miwok lived in the Clear Lake basin of what is now...
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    landed on the Pacific coast at Drakes Bay in Northern California. While encamped there, he had friendly relations with the Coast Miwok people who inhabited...
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  • referred to as a language, but it is mutually intelligible with the other dialects of North Straits Salish. Samish is a Coast Salish language and is closely...
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  • Tsupu (category Coast Miwok people)
     1815–1890), also known as Wild Cucumber, Maria Chekka, and Maria Chica, was a Coast Miwok elder. She was the last native of the ancient village of Petaluma, which...
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  • federally recognized tribe of Miwok people in Tuolumne County, California. The Tuolumne Band are central Sierra Miwok people. Annually, in September...
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  • that spoke the Chochenyo language. To the north, across the Golden Gate, was the Huimen local tribe of Coast Miwok language speakers. The northernmost...
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