George Lucas was sued by a guy named Dean Preston, who claimed
he invented the Ewoks in a script called "Space Pets" that he wrote in 1977 and mailed to Lucas in 1978.
Lucas testified in court that
he created the Ewoks in his original 1974 draft of "The Star Wars" and came up with the name by reversing the syllables of the character he called Wookie and rhyming it with the Northern California Indian tribe known as the Miwok (pronounced: mee-walk).
Wookiepedia explains:
The name "Ewok" only appeared in the script directions, the novelization, the movie's credits, and other spin-off and promotional materials.
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