The Miwok 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.
Painting of Sierra Miwok at the Mariposa Indian Encampment, Yosemite Valley by Albert Bierstadt
1872 photograph of Southern Miwok council in Yosemite Valley
Benjamin Barry (Miwok), World War II veteran and fire chief in parade dress
Miwok sweat lodge in Yosemite Valley
Northern California is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, spanning the northernmost 48 of the state's 58 counties. Its main population centers include the San Francisco Bay Area, the Greater Sacramento area, the Redding, California, area south of the Cascade Range, and the Metropolitan Fresno area. Northern California also contains redwood forests, along with most of the Sierra Nevada, including Yosemite Valley and part of Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta, and most of the Central Valley, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions.
Image: Muir Woods National Monument (47879029461)
Image: Northern California Coast as seen from Muir Beach Overlook
Image: Squaw Valley Gondola
Image: Natural Bridges State Park (16328059535)