Plains and Sierra Miwok
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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 the Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley, and the Sierra Nevada.
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.
A basket woven by Miwok-Mono Paiute Native American artist Lucy Telles from the Yosemite Valley region
Miwok-Paiute ceremony in 1872 at current site of Yosemite Lodge in Yosemite Valley
Miwok
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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