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Miwok
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Mi·wok  (mwk)
n. pl. Miwok or Mi·woks
1.
a. A Native American people formerly composed of numerous groups inhabiting central California from the Sierra Nevada foothills to the San Francisco Bay area, with a small number of present-day descendants in the same region.
b. A member of this people.
2. Any of the Penutian languages of this people.

[Central Sierra Miwok míw··k, people.]
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Noun1.Miwok - a member of the North American Indian people living in the central Sierra Nevada in California
Penutian - a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages
2.Miwok - a Penutian language spoken by the Miwok
Penutian - a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California


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Currently, only a handful of Coast Miwoks remain and most of them know nothing or very little of their fascinating ancestors.
The organization's goal this year is $75,000 and Tako and a small group of friends from his son's Y-Guides tribe, the Miwoks, have a friendly competition going to help raise the money.
To prevent competition from pines the Miwoks burned groves of oaks to clear out ponderosa pine seedlings.
 
 
 
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