Coast Miwok
Modern reconstructions of Coast Miwok shelters at Kule Loklo.
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| Total population | |
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| (1770: 2,000 1850: 250 1880: 60 2000: 167) |
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California: |
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| Languages | |
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Utian: Coast Miwok |
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| Religion | |
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Shamanism: Kuksu: Miwok mythology |
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| Related ethnic groups | |
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Miwok |
California:
Marin County
Miwok
Plains & Sierra Miwok
Lake Miwok
The Coast Miwok are an indigenous people that was the second largest group of Miwok people. The Coast Miwok inhabited the general area of modern Marin County and southern Sonoma County in Northern California, from the Golden Gate north to Duncans Point and eastward to Sonoma Creek. The Coast Miwok included the Bodega Bay Miwok from authenticated Miwok villages around Bodega Bay and Marin Miwok.
The Coast Miwok spoke their own Coast Miwok language in the Utian linguistic group. They lived by hunting and gathering, and lived in small bands without centralized political authority. In the springtime they would head to the coasts to hunt salmon and other seafood, including seaweed. Otherwise their staple foods were primarily acorns—particularly from black and tan oak–nuts and wild game, such as deer and cottontail rabbits and black-tailed deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus, a coastal subspecies of the California mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus. When hunting deer, Miwok hunters traditionally used Brewer's angelica, Angelica breweri to eliminate their own scent. Miwok did not typically hunt bears.Yerba buena tea leaf were used medicinally.
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