language spoken by the Native American people called the Southern Sierra Miwok of Northern California. Southern Sierra Miwok is a member of the Miwok...
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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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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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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...
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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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Southern Sierra Miwok Central Sierra Miwok Dictionary Central Sierra Language Preservation Program, Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians Southern Sierra Miwok Dictionary...
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Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indian of California. The California Valley Miwok are Sierra Miwok, an Indigenous people of California. The tribe conducts business...
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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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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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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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titled "Mythology and Beliefs". Barrett, Samuel A. "Myths of the Southern Sierra Miwok", University of California Publications in American Archaeology...
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El Capitan (category Articles containing Southern Sierra Miwok-language text)
varies in different accounts as it is a phonetic transcription from the Miwok language). The "Rock Chief" etymology is based on the written account of Mariposa...
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Ahwahnechee (category Miwok)
lived in the Yosemite Valley. They were a band of Miwok people, specifically Southern Sierra Miwok. The Awani people's heritage can be found all over...
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Dorothy Stanley (category Miwok people)
she was raised at home in the Northern Sierra Miwok and Central Sierra Miwok languages. In addition to several odd jobs outside the county such as candy...
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Harry Fonseca (1946–2006), painter Miwok people Sierra Miwok "Tribal Governance." Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2012...
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Sacramento Valley and Sierra Mountains. These Miwoks are the linguistically related speakers of the Plains and Sierra Miwok languages and their descendants...
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California is a federally recognized tribe of Miwok in Amador County, California. The Buena Vista Miwok are Sierra Miwok, an indigenous people of California. The...
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The original Native American name of Sentinel Dome, in the Southern Sierra Miwok language, was pronounced "Sak'-ka-du-eh". The Bunnell survey named it...
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California Nisenan, Southern Maidu, eastern-central California Miwok, Me-wuk, central California Coast Miwok, west-central California Lake Miwok, west-central...
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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Lushootseed language Southern Lushootseed at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Holly Taylor (2010-05-06). "Preserving the Lushootseed language for the next...
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spoke Mono as their first language. It is classified as critically endangered by UNESCO. It is spoken in the southern Sierra Nevada, the Mono Basin, and...
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Century and with the term Miwok itself, which is the Central Sierra Miwok word for people. The Lake Miwok spoke their own Lake language in the Utian linguistic...
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Wilton Rancheria (redirect from Wilton Rancheria Miwok)
recognized Native American tribe of Miwok people based in northern California. They were formed from Wilton Rancheria Miwok and the Me-Wuk Indian Community...
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with the Mono tribe and Sierra Miwok tribe on the western side, and the Kawaiisu and Tübatulabal tribes in the southern Sierra. Today, some historic intertribal...
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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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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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and benne ("sesame"). The Gullahs’ English-based creole language is strikingly similar to Sierra Leone Krio of West Africa and contains such identical expressions...
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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The Blackfoot language, also called Siksiká (/ˈsɪksəkə/ SIK-sə-kə; Blackfoot: [sɪksiká], ᓱᖽᐧᖿ) is an Algonquian language spoken by the Blackfoot or Niitsitapi...
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