The climate is temperate, more cold than hot. They are of the color of the Indians here (Peru) and are comely. These people were peaceful and did no harm to the English, but gave them no food.
By signs, Captain Francis Drake told them not to do that, for the Englishmen were not God. The Miwok tribes originally ranged from California's North Coast to present-day Lake and Contra Costa counties, extending all the way up into the lower foothills of the Sierra Nevada.ġ655 engraving imagining the Coast Miwoks' meeting with Sir Francis Drake in 1579.Īccording to Spartacus Educational, the first encounter between Miwoks and Europeans took place on June 17, 1579, when Sir Francis Drake landed near present-day Point Reyes, dropping anchor in what is now called Drakes Bay (called Tamál-Húye by the Coast Miwok). In a telling later recorded, in 1582, John Drake described meeting the Coast Miwok people who populated this coastal area:ĭuring that time (June 1579) many Indians came there and when they saw the Englishmen they wept and scratched their faces with their nails until they drew blood, as though this was an act of homage or adoration. Bureau of Indian Affairs as Miwok, or speakers of the Moquelumnun language. Other than the Plains Miwok, there are 10 more indigenous tribes identified by the U.S. Insofar as people, it is the Plains Miwok who roamed the lush, fertile riparian zone between the Cosumnes and Calaveras rivers - with the Mokelumne River in between, rushing down from the Sierra Nevada and into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta - for at least a thousand years before meeting the first explorers and settlers of European descent. This is a land blessed with intrinsic ease of sustainability (in the original sense of the word) between the natural environment, grapes, and people.ĭepiction of feathered and tattooed Miwok in Harry Knill's book, Great Indians of California.
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Almost effortlessly, Lodi has become easily the most widely planted wine region in the United States, growing twice as much acreage of vines than Sonoma County and the vaunted Napa Valley regions combined (or you can say, more than the entire states of Oregon and Washington combined, plus at least another 25%). To know the people who originally lived in the watershed area now recognized as the Lodi Viticultural Area is to know why wine grapes grow so well here. The Mokelumne River region's natural riparian environment - grassland and deep-rooted valley oaks, teeming with acorns - is preserved today in Lodi's Jessie's Grove estate.
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A full telling of the Plains Miwok, the "first people of the Mokelumne"
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