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Chief Marin: Betty Goerke 288 pages (7 x 9), with 68 color and b&w images 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. Chief Marin became a leader of Native resistance to Spanish colonization at that critical time when, as the mission system collapsed, California would once again be transformed, this time by Americans. With marvelous detail, Goerke paints a picture of the California of Marin’s time: the sights, smells, and sounds of the land; the traditions the Coast Miwok fought to preserve; and the colonial system against which Marin and other Native American leaders struggled to keep their way of life. |
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Betty Goerke has been teaching anthropology and archaeology at the College of Marin for over thirty years. She has conducted archaeological fieldwork in California, Colorado, Greece, Holland, Kenya, and India, and has authored books and articles and produced several videotapes, including Archaeology: Questioning the Past. |
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"As Betty Goerke sketches the life story of Chief Marin, she effectively remaps Marin and southern Sonoma counties, providing Indian and non-Indian alike a rich historical tapestry of the region’s native people and their against-all-odds survival, a tapestry that has heretofore been ignored or forgotten."—From the Foreword by Greg Sarris, Tribal Chair, Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria "With meticulous research and lively prose, Betty Goerke tells the true story of one group of California Natives overwhelmed by a century of change, and of one of their chiefs, Marin, whose intelligence, skills, and independent spirit epitomized his people’s yearning to be free."—Beth Ashley, Marin Independent Journal "A superb book….Betty Goerke has penned a masterful account of the Coast Miwok people from ancient times, through their varied engagements with Spanish explorers and soldiers, Franciscan missionaries, Russian traders, Californio ranchers, and Anglo-American settlers, to the emergence of the vibrant Indian community of today."—Kent G. Lightfoot, author of Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers "Anyone interested in Indian history in the San Francisco Bay Area will want this well-researched book in their library."—Randall Milliken, author of A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1769–1810 "A sustained biography of Marino Huicmuse, a man whose life embodies the struggles of the Coast Miwok to maintain control over their lives within an increasingly confining colonial order."—Steven W. Hackel, author of Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850 |
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