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Collection: Directories and Documents > Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection

On the Eviences of Occupation of Certain Regions by the Miwok Indians (12 pages)

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS oe AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY Vou. & No. 3 ON THE EVIDENCES OF THE OCCUPATION OF CERTAIN REGIONS BY THE MIWOK INDIANS BY A. L. KROEBER. Since Mr. Barrett’s paper on the Geography and Dialects of the Miwok Indians was sent to press and announced, but previous to its publication, there has appeared an article on the same subject by Dr. C. Hart Merriam.1 While these two contributions, which were made entirely independently, corroborate each other closely in the main, they differ on certain points. These differences, which relate in part to the territory of the Miwok stock as a whole, and in part to tribal and linguistic divisions, it has seemed best to discuss briefly. As regards descriptions of the boundaries of the Miwok stock, Mr. Barrett and Dr. Merriam agree closely for the most part. Considering the impossibility of obtaining absolutely accurate information at a time when the Indians are much diminished in numbers, in certain regions entirely extinct, and often dispossessed from their native habitats; considering also that one investigator has probably been able to carry inquiries farther in certain sections and the other in other districts, and that in many cases one describes a boundary more in detail and the other summarily ; the agreement of their conclusions as regards the greater part of the Miwok territory is so close as to be strictly corroborative. In one region, however, the differences are considerable and important. Mr. Barrett assigns to the Miwok no part of the 1 Distribution and Classification of the Mewan Stock of California, Amer. Anthr., n. s., EX, 338-357, with map, pl. XXV.