About the Coast Miwok

The Coast Miwok people are the First Peoples of the place we now call Marin County, with more than 10,000 years of history an ancestry here. Their lineage and culture are vast and complex. Check out the Village Sites page to learn more about the specific villages sites that once existed around Marin, and the About Tribelets page to read about the groupings of Coast Miwok peoples in precolonial Marin.

To hear directly from the members of the Coast Miwok Tribal Council of Marin, visit their site at www.thefirstpeoples.com

To learn more about the Coast Miwok from contemporary archeologists and anthropologists, visit www.mapom.org

To learn more about the history of the Coast Miwok, check out the assembled resources at sgvhistoricalsociety.org/coast-miwok