The Coast Miwok are an Indigenous people of California that were the second-largest tribe of the Miwok people. Coast Miwok inhabited the general area of present-day Marin County and southern Sonoma County in Northern California, from the Golden Gate north to Duncans Point and eastward to Sonoma Creek.

On July 3, 2023, the Coast Miwok Tribal Council obtained title to 25.9 acres of Ancestral Land in 'Etcha Tamal (Nicasio). Find out more and what can happen next.

Apr 28, 2024 · Before the Europeans came to California, the Coast Miwok people were the inhabitants of what we now call Marin and southern Sonoma Counties. They knew and blended with this bountiful land for thousands of years, developing a rich economy based on gathering, fishing and hunting.

Loosely divided into five major bands inhabiting the general area that includes today’s Marin and southern Sonoma counties, Coast Miwok were the second largest group of Miwok Native Americans. Within each of the major bands were numerous, smaller tribal groups, each consisting of anywhere from 60 to a few hundred people.

The Coast Miwok are indigenous people of the area north of San Francisco Bay. The name “Coast Miwok” refers to the Native American communities who lived along the California coast north of the San Francisco Bay, in what is today Marin and parts of Sonoma Counties.

This report documents the ethnogeography and early history of the Coast Miwok and their neighbors between 1783 and 1840. It is written almost 100 years after Samuel Barrett published the first details on Coast Miwok ethnogeography (1908a) and more than 70 years after Isabel Kelly gathered a rich body of notes about Coast Miwok village locations (in

Dec 2, 2024 · The Graton Rancheria community is a federation of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo groups recognized as a tribe by the US Congress. The Miwok of west Marin County have, through the years, been referred to as Marshall Indians, Marin Miwok, Tomales, Tomales Bay, and Hookooeko.

Jan 27, 2022 · The forests, chaparral, and grasslands of the Marin Peninsula are the traditional homeland of the Coast Miwok people. For more than 10,000 years, Coast Miwok people have lived along the shorelines of Marin County, and continue to live in the county and beyond today.

Apr 18, 2024 · Kule Loklo (meaning Bear Valley) is a replica Coast Miwok village. Walk 0.4 miles (0.6 km) from the Kule Loklo Trailhead at the north end of the Bear Valley parking area to Kule Loklo. The Coast Miwok Today

Oct 26, 2021 · In his latest book, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Tsim Schneider examines the history of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo peoples in California from an Indigenous perspective, uncovering stories of resilience and continued connection to culture and homelands from the 18th through 20th century, despite multiple waves of colonial intrusion.