Culture
The Miwok lived in small bands without centralized political authority before contact with European Americans in 1769. They had domesticated dogs and cultivated tobacco, but were otherwise hunter-gatherers.
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“We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.”
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