Miwok

noun

Miwok

noun

US /ˈmiwɑk/ · UK /ˈmiːwɒk/

Etymology Miwok means "the people" in the native Utian language.

1

A member of a linguistic group of indigenous people, native to central California.

  • The Miwok pound acorns with pestles […]1925, Kroeber, Alfred, Handbook of Indians of California, Washington, D.C: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. (Chapter 30)

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