Miwok

Miwok

Author: Barbara A. Gray-Kanatiiosh

Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1617848883

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An introduction to the history, social life and customs, and present life of the Miwok Indians, a tribe in California.


Black Sun of the Miwok

Black Sun of the Miwok

Author: Jack Burrows

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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Six true stories from 1925-45 of California Miwok Indians who lived in the Sierra foothills.


The Miwok

The Miwok

Author: Jens Haakonsen

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1538324695

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In this fascinating book readers will explore the traditional customs of the Miwok of California. The Miwok people once lived across California, living in a variety of different environments including coastal areas, portions of the Central Valley, and the Sierra Nevada. Readers will discover how the Miwok used the resources available to them to survive, and how conflict with outsiders transformed their lives. With primary sources to augment the text, this informative book is a strong supplement to the California social studies curriculum.


The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse

The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse

Author: Tsim D. Schneider

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0816542538

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"As an Indigenous scholar researching the history and archaeology of his own tribe, Tsim D. Schneider provides a unique and timely contribution to the growing field of Indigenous archaeology and offers a new perspective on the primary role and relevance of Indigenous places and homelands in the study of colonial encounters"--


Two Bear Cubs

Two Bear Cubs

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781930238589

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Retells the Miwok Indian legend in which a little measuring worm saves two bear cubs stranded at the top of the rock known as El Capitan.


The Miwok of California

The Miwok of California

Author:

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2003-12-15

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9781404226593

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This fascinating book brings to life the Miwok of California. They lived in a variety of different environments, including coastal areas, portions of the Central Valley, and the Sierra Nevada. During the early Spanish era, the western groups came into conflict with outsiders. The eastern communities suffered greatly as a result of the gold rush that began in 1849.


Legends of the Yosemite Miwok

Legends of the Yosemite Miwok

Author: Frank R. LaPena

Publisher: Yosemite Conservancy

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781597140737

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Contains illustrated retellings of eighteen legends of the Native American people of the Yosemite area of California.


Miwok Means People

Miwok Means People

Author: Eugene Conrotto

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-06-13

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781533221797

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Imagine you live in a self-contained village where your parents and their parents and all your forebears from the beginning of time have lived. Imagine that within a day's walking distance from your village are the villages of other People-to the east and west and north and south. They are PEOPLE because they speak words you mainly understand. There are in these foothills 9000 such PEOPLE. Then imagine that in the space of a few months 90,000 ûyeayû-white men-come uninvited to all the PEOPLE'S villages to tear away the ground under the PEOPLE'S feet looking for rocks. For each one of you there are 10 of them. Imagine!