Eastern Miwok

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Eastern Miwok is a branch of the Miwok Native American people and their associated language varieties traditionally spoken in the central Sierra Nevada and adjacent regions of California.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Eastern Miwok canonical 6
Eastern Miwok language 1
Sierra Miwok 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American ethnic group
indigenous people of North America
language branch
affectedBy American expansion into California
Spanish colonization of California
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalRegion California cultural area
ethnicGroupOf United States of America
surface form: United States
hasAlternativeName Sierra Miwok
hasCulturalPractice acorn-based cuisine
basketry
hasCulturalRegionOverlap Yokuts territory
hasEthnologueCode Central Sierra Miwok
surface form: csm (Central Sierra Miwok)

nsq (Northern Sierra Miwok)
skd (Southern Sierra Miwok)
hasLanguageVariety Central Sierra Miwok
Northern Sierra Miwok
Southern Sierra Miwok
hasNeighboringGroup Northern Sierra Miwok neighboring Yokuts peoples
Plains Miwok
hasRelatedGroup Bay Miwok
Plains Miwok
Western Miwok
indigenousTo California, United States
surface form: California
languageBranchOf Miwok languages
languageFamily Miwok languages
Utian languages
languageStatus moribund
severely endangered
locatedIn California, United States
surface form: California

Sierra Nevada
surface form: Sierra Nevada (United States)
partOf Miwok
Indigenous peoples of California
surface form: Native Americans in California
regionOfLanguageUse Sierra Nevada foothills
Central California
surface form: central California
subgroupOf Miwok people
timeDepth pre-contact period in California
traditionalHousing bark houses
semi-subterranean structures
traditionalRegion California, United States
surface form: California

adjacent foothill regions of California
central Sierra Nevada
traditionalReligion indigenous Californian religious practices
traditionalSubsistence acorn processing
fishing
gathering
hunting
writingSystem Latin script (for linguistic documentation)

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Miwok languages hasSubgroup Eastern Miwok
Miwok languages hasSubgroup Eastern Miwok
this entity surface form: Sierra Miwok
Miwok languages languageBranch Eastern Miwok
Northern Sierra Miwok dialectOf Eastern Miwok
this entity surface form: Sierra Miwok language
Utian hasSubgroup Eastern Miwok
Saclan subfamily Eastern Miwok
Lake Miwok subclassOf Eastern Miwok
this entity surface form: Eastern Miwok language
Lake Miwok languageBranch Eastern Miwok
Western Miwok relatedTo Eastern Miwok