Analysis On The Miwok Tribe

Michael Toloknov
Miwok Tribe

The Miwok tribe was a Central Californian tribe. Miwoks had men leaders and women leaders, lived in small tribelets, and spoke Miwok language. Their food, clothes, and tools were different from that of others. The Miwoks had a very interesting life for all their different customs. The Miwok tribe ate many different foods. The two main foods were nuts which they made into mush, they also ate salmon which the Miwok smoke fried to preserve it for longer periods of time. They also ate berries from the pepperwood tree. The water creatures they ate were fish, crabs, salmon, and mussels. Miwoks sometimes immobilized fish by throwing the soap root plant into the water and then collected