More than 150 years after the last settlement on Coast Miwok land in Marin faded away, the county’s Indigenous Native American tribe is getting 26 acres of its homeland back in Nicasio. All the cards ...
Native American vintner honors heritage with his wines “I’m using Coast Miwok names for my wines so that people will actually be forced to speak a language that was considered extinct,” Rob Campbell ...
In 1984, my California Indian History professor told our UC Berkeley class that the Coast Miwok, a California Indian people, were extinct. I raised my hand and said that my Coast Miwok mom was alive ...
Oona-pa’is is another name for Sonoma Mountain. Pa’is means “mountain” in the Coast Miwok language. Tamalpais in Marin County has the same ending. Tamal means “bay,” so tamalpais translates as “bay ...
Somewhere in the Sierra Nevada, a granite terrace the size of a football field holds hundreds of mysterious stone basins representing what geologists believe is one of the earliest known "factories" ...
For Rob Campbell, when the sun sets and a streak of orange fills the sky, it is the fire his ancestors are sitting around. The descendant of both Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo Indians is a member of ...