History
The foothill Miwok tribes were impacted upon by other tribes who were
in numerous concentration in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys of
inland California. These larger tribes crowded some of the Miwok to the
point that they were willing to leave their ancestral foothill lands and
move up deeper into the California Backcountry. A band of the Miwok
migrated again, this time moving up the Merced River and into Yosemite
Valley.
When they arrived in Yosemite, the Miwok encountered another tribe, a group of people who had come there from the Great basin on the eastern side of the sierras many generations before. The two groups intermarried and became a unique group with in the Miwok. Their primary trade partner were the Mono who lived around Mono Lake, and would meet them each summer at a peak to trade goods.
