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The Museum of the American Indian (formerly the Marin Museum of the American Indian) was founded in 1967 and is located in Novato, California, U.S. Situated on the site of a former Coast Miwok settlement. [1] The museum is within the 35 acres (14 ha) of Miwok Park in northern Marin County.
Chief Marin was a Coast Miwok of the Huimen local tribe, baptized at around age 20 in 1801 [49] at Mission San Francisco and noted as an alcalde at Mission San Rafael in the 1820s. He died on March 15, 1839. [43] Marin County and the Marin Islands are named in his honor. [50]
Rancho Nicasio was a Mexican land grant of 56,807 acres (230 km 2) granted to the Coast Miwok indigenous people in 1835, located in the present-day Marin County, California, a tract of land that stretched from San Geronimo to Tomales Bay. [1] Today, Nicasio, California is at the heart of this location. [2] [3]
Tribal governmental programs and services include sacred sites preservation and protection, Indian housing, Indian education, membership, cultural arts, social services, and tribal health. [17] The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria are governed by a seven-member Tribal Council who are elected to two-year terms by the adult tribal membership.
Rancho Olómpali was a 8,877-acre (35.92 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Marin County, California given in 1834 by governor Manuel Micheltorena to Camilo Ynitia, son of a Coast Miwok chief. [1] The name Olómpali comes from the Coast Miwok language [2] and likely means southern village or southern people. [3]
Olompali had been a main center in 1200 CE, and might have been the largest native village in Marin County. [4] An Elizabethan English silver sixpence minted in 1567 was discovered in the park by archeologists, indicating that villagers may have had contact with Sir Francis Drake, or with people who had traded with the early English explorer. [5]
Access Genealogy: Indian Tribal records, Miwok Indian Tribe. Retrieved on 2006-08-01. Main source of "authenticated village" names and locations. Barrett, S.A. and Gifford, E.W. Miwok Material Culture: Indian Life of the Yosemite Region. Yosemite Association, Yosemite National Park, California, 1933. ISBN 0-939666-12-X; Cook, Sherburne.
Chief Marin (c. 1781 – March 15, 1839) was the "great chief of the tribe Licatiut" (a branch of Coast Miwok native to present-day Marin County, California), according to General Vallejo's semi-historical report to the first California State Legislature in 1850.