Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend

A rare biography of a California Indian leader that weaves together the story of a legendary figure.

It's a little known fact that the San Francisco Bay Area's Marin County is named after a Coast Miwok chief who achieved notoriety for defying Spanish authority over his people. Anthropologist and archaeologist Betty Goerke has pieced together a portrait of the life of this Native American leader, using mission records, ethnographies, explorers' and missionaries' diaries and correspondence, and other material.

ISBN-13: 9781597140539

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Heyday Books

Publication Date: 04-01-2007

Pages: 346

Product Dimensions: 8.98h x 7.06w x 0.94d