page_title: Plains and Sierra Miwok
section_title: Divisions
hierarchical_section_title: Plains and Sierra Miwok / Divisions
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Plains and Sierra Miwok territories, an excerpt from the map titled "Territory and Villages of the Maidu and Miwok", taken from the Handbook of the Indians of California by Alfred L. Kroeber, published by the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1925. Edited: territories of Plains Miwok (green), Northern Sierra Miwok (orange), Central Sierra Miwok (red), and Southern Sierra Miwok (purple) indicated by color.
context_page_description: The Plains and Sierra Miwok were once the largest group of Native American Miwok people, indigenous to California. Their homeland included regions of the Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley, and the Sierra Nevada.
context_section_description: There were four definite regional and linguistic sub-divisions: Plains Miwok, Northern Sierra Miwok, Central Sierra Miwok, and Southern Sierra Miwok.
caption: Map of the territory and villages (not exhaustive) of the Plains and Sierra Miwok (after Kroeber 1925).
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