Coast Miwok

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California Indian group Indigenous people Native American tribe

The Coast Miwok are an Indigenous people of what is now Marin and southern Sonoma counties in Northern California, known for their rich cultural traditions, coastal village life, and deep ties to the region’s land and waterways.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Coast Miwok canonical	15
Coast Miwok language	5
Coastal Miwok	1

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	California Indian group ⓘ Indigenous people ⓘ Native American tribe ⓘ
affectedBy	Spanish missions in California ⓘ surface form: Spanish mission system
archaeologicalCulture	Shellmound-building tradition around San Francisco Bay ⓘ
colonizedBy	Spanish Empire ⓘ
contemporaryActivities	cultural revitalization ⓘ land stewardship projects ⓘ language documentation ⓘ
culturalRegion	California cultural area ⓘ surface form: California culture area
experienced	land dispossession in the 19th century ⓘ population decline after European contact ⓘ
federallyRecognizedTribe	Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria ⓘ
languageFamily	Penutian languages ⓘ surface form: Penutian language phylum Utian languages ⓘ
missionizationAt	Mission San Francisco de Asís ⓘ Mission San Rafael Arcángel ⓘ
nativeTo	Marin County ⓘ surface form: Marin County, California Northern California ⓘ Sonoma County, California ⓘ surface form: southern Sonoma County, California
practicedCeremony	Kuksu dances ⓘ seasonal ceremonies ⓘ
recognizedAs	part of Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria ⓘ
region	California coast ⓘ
relatedGroup	Bay Miwok ⓘ Lake Miwok ⓘ Sierra Miwok ⓘ
religion	Kuksu religion ⓘ surface form: Kuksu religious system animism ⓘ
sharesTribeWith	Southern Pomo ⓘ
subgroupOf	Miwok people ⓘ surface form: Miwok peoples
traditionalCraft	basketry ⓘ shell bead making ⓘ stone tool production ⓘ
traditionalFood	acorn mush ⓘ deer ⓘ rabbits ⓘ salmon ⓘ seaweed ⓘ seeds and nuts ⓘ shellfish ⓘ waterfowl ⓘ
traditionalHousing	cone-shaped tule houses ⓘ redwood plank houses ⓘ
traditionalLanguage	Coast Miwok self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Coast Miwok language
traditionalPoliticalOrganization	village-based leadership ⓘ
traditionalSettlementPattern	small villages near bays and streams ⓘ
traditionalSubsistence	acorn processing ⓘ fishing ⓘ gathering ⓘ hunting ⓘ marine resource harvesting ⓘ
traditionalTerritoryIncludes	Point Reyes National Seashore ⓘ surface form: Point Reyes Peninsula San Pablo Bay shores ⓘ Tomales Bay ⓘ
usedMaterial	abalone shells ⓘ clam shells ⓘ obsidian ⓘ redwood ⓘ tule reeds ⓘ
usedWatercraft	tule balsas ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Coast Miwok
Description of subject: The Coast Miwok are an Indigenous people of what is now Marin and southern Sonoma counties in Northern California, known for their rich cultural traditions, coastal village life, and deep ties to the region’s land and waterways.

Referenced by (21)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southern Sierra Miwok → relatedEthnicGroup → Coast Miwok ⓘ

Miwok languages → hasSubgroup → Coast Miwok ⓘ

Miwok languages → hasLanguage → Coast Miwok ⓘ

Northern Sierra Miwok → relatedEthnicGroup → Coast Miwok ⓘ

Plains Miwok → relatedEthnicGroup → Coast Miwok ⓘ

Coast Miwok → traditionalLanguage → Coast Miwok self-linksurface differs ⓘ