 Clear Lake, California, is the homeland of the Lake Miwok | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 1770: 500 1850: 100 1880: 20 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| California: Lake County | |
| Languages | |
| English, formerly Lake Miwok language | |
| Religion | |
| Shamanism: Kuksu: Miwok mythology | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Miwok |
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 called Lake County. While they did not have an overarching name for themselves, the Lake Miwok word for people, Hotsa-ho, was suggested by A. L. Kroeber as a possible endonym,[1] keeping with a common practice among tribal groups and the ethnographers studying them in the early 20th Century and with the term Miwok itself, which is the Central Sierra Miwok word for people.
- ^ Kroeber, Alfred L. (1925). Handbook of the Indians of California. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. p. 274.