Miwok and Paiutes-Salt People

April 23, 2010 by Ancientfoods

Topic: Salt gatherers:

I have done a bit of reading since I posted the article on the Miwok Indians being identified as salt garthers and traders,

Here are a cople of links to articles on Indian Country Today that might be oF intrest-.

More on the subject of salt later as it affected all of the ancient world-one way or another.

This looks like the original article about the Miwok also on Indian Country Today.

Below is a photo of the basins in question.

Salt Basins

interesting find-no matter what the orgin.

Joanna Linsley-Poe

4/23/2010

on September 20, 2014 at 12:56 pm | Reply Bob Graham

Another prehistoric Sierra salt manufacturing site that I have discovered on the South Fork of the American River, Maidu territory in historic times.
http://longcamp.com/salt.html
And this one is still working, all by itself down through the centuries.

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- on September 20, 2014 at 2:17 pm | Reply Ancientfoods
  
  Thanks so much for the link. I appreciate the information, as you might be able to tell from my site, salt and its mining by what ever means is of great interest to me.
  
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