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n. - A Penutian language spoken by the North American Indian people living in the central Sierra Nevada in California.

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  • The pottery has turned up among other places in the excavations of a Miwok village.
  • Mr. Stephen Powers claims that there is no such word in the Miwok language as Yosemite.
  • Wagner probably left the trail at the bridge below the Miwok village, climbed up to the wall to take in the view.
  • If she makes a baby-basket, it is totally devoid of ornament; and one tribe, the Miwok, contemptuously call it 'the dog's nest.'
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