Plains and Sierra Miwok

Plains and Sierra Miwok People
A Sierra Miwok cedar bark umuucha cabin reproduction in Yosemite Valley. The material came from lumbering operations of 19th century miners. Previously the Miwok lived in rounded huts made of brush and mud.[1]
Total population
1770: 9,000-17,800
1848: 6,000
1880: 100
1910: 670
Regions with significant populations
 United States ( California):
Sierra Nevada, Central Valley
Languages
Utian:
Plains Miwok, Northern Sierra Miwok, Central Sierra Miwok, Southern Sierra Miwok
Religion
Kuksu
Miwok religion
Related ethnic groups
Other Miwok peoples: Coast Miwok, Lake Miwok, and Bay Miwok

The Plains and Sierra Miwok were once the largest group of California Indian Miwok people, Indigenous to California. Their homeland included regions of the Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley, and the Sierra Nevada.

  1. ^ Craig D. Bates Museum Anthropology 17(2):13 (June 1993)