The Bay Miwok are a cultural and linguistic group of Miwok, a Native American people in Northern California who live in Contra Costa County.

The Bay Miwok and Their Territories. The Bay Miwok tribes each had one to five semi-permanent villages and numerous temporary camping sites within a fixed territory of about 6 to 10 miles in diameter. Each tribe knew its land and boundaries intimately and owned the land communally.

Bay Miwok territory stretched from the Oakland-Berkeley hills in the west to the Mt. Diablo foothills and San Joaquin delta in the east. A particularly sacred site in the mythology of the indigenous peoples of the East Bay is Mt. Diablo, known as Tuyshtak in the Chochenyo language, and understood to be the site of creation of the world and ...

Apr 5, 2017 · The Miwok ( meaning ‘people’ or ‘person’) are aboriginal members of four Native American tribal groups associated philologically. They originally belonged to the region that we come across as Northern California at present.

From 1827 to 1844 a series of malaria and smallpox epidemics in Central California contributed to the end of resistance in Bay Miwok territory. Remnants of the tribes went to work on local ranches or fled to the Central Valley.

Before European contact, the Bay Miwok language was one of several indigenous languages of the Bay Area, a thriving network of indigenous cultures connected through trade, intermarriage, cultural ceremonies, and diplomacy.

The Bay Miwok lived in Contra Costa County. The Miwok lived mostly along the foothills of the Sierras and up into the mountains below the line of heavy winter snows. Northern branches of the group, known as the Plains Miwok and the Bay Miwok, lived …

Descendants of the Bay Area’s first peoples are involved in protecting ancestral village and sacred sites, participating in Big Times, creating traditional objects, and interpreting their cultural history to the public.

Bay Miwok The Miwok (also spelled Miwuk , Mi-Wuk , or Me-Wuk ) are members of four linguistically related Native American groups indigenous to what is now Northern California , who traditionally spoke one of the Miwok languages in the Utian family.

Ohlone and Miwok are modern designations that group together distinct tribes of Native people based on the languages they spoke and their broad-based cultural affiliations. This map shows the homelands of the tribes of the places now known as the San Francisco Bay Area.