Plains Miwok

English

Proper noun

Plains Miwok

1. A division of the Miwok people, who resided in the general area of modern San Joaquin County and parts of Sacramento Valley, California.
2. The Utian (Penutian) language spoken by this people.

Related terms

• Valley Miwok

References

• Cook, Sherburne. The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1976. →ISBN.
• Kroeber, Alfred L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Washington, D.C: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. (Chapter 30, The Miwok); available at Yosemite Online Library.

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Plains Miwok, pmw ⁠