The Bay Miwok are a cultural and linguistic group of Miwok, a Native American people in Northern California who live in Contra Costa County.

The Bay Miwok and Their Territories. The Bay Miwok tribes each had one to five semi-permanent villages and numerous temporary camping sites within a fixed territory of about 6 to 10 miles in …

Bay Miwok territory stretched from the Oakland-Berkeley hills in the west to the Mt. Diablo foothills and San Joaquin delta in the east. A particularly sacred site in the mythology of the indigenous …

Apr 5, 2017 · The Miwok ( meaning ‘people’ or ‘person’) are aboriginal members of four Native American tribal groups associated philologically. They originally belonged to the region that we …

From 1827 to 1844 a series of malaria and smallpox epidemics in Central California contributed to the end of resistance in Bay Miwok territory. Remnants of the tribes went to work on local …

Bay Miwok The Miwok (also spelled Miwuk , Mi-Wuk , or Me-Wuk ) are members of four linguistically related Native American groups indigenous to what is now Northern California , …

Before European contact, the Bay Miwok language was one of several indigenous languages of the Bay Area, a thriving network of indigenous cultures connected through trade, …

The Bay Miwok lived in Contra Costa County. The Miwok lived mostly along the foothills of the Sierras and up into the mountains below the line of heavy winter snows. Northern branches of …

Ohlone and Miwok are modern designations that group together distinct tribes of Native people based on the languages they spoke and their broad-based cultural affiliations. This map shows …

Bay Miwok (Saclan, Saklan) was one of the Miwok languages spoken in California, around San Francisco Bay. All of the population has shifted to English.