Miwok

The Miwok appear in 693. Elizabeth I vs The Catholics: England’s Greatest Hero (Part 3) in the episode’s account of Francis Drake reaching the Bay Area during the Golden Hind voyage. The hosts say Drake meets the Miwok, is given a feathered crown, and claims the land for Elizabeth I as New Albion.

For the wiki, this is a narrow source-context page. The episode mainly uses the encounter to mark Drake’s Pacific reach and English imperial imagination; it does not develop Miwok society on its own terms.

Connections

• New Albion, Francis Drake, and Golden Hind - episode context.
• England, Elizabeth I, and Spanish Imperial Monopoly Vulnerability - claim and imperial-rivalry frame.
• Historical Memory Contest - reminder that imperial-hero stories can leave Indigenous perspectives underdeveloped.