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Coast Miwok Cultural Wellness and Community
Author: Dean Hoaglin, Coast Miwok of Marin
Lesson partner: Rebecca Lowry, Humboldt County Office of Education
Grade(s): 6-9
Suggested Amount of Time: 1-2 class sessions (2 hours)
Curriculum Themes
- History
- Cultural Strengths
- Relationship to Place
Learning Goals
Students will:
Identify the Coast Miwok Indians who lived in Marin and parts of southern Sonoma counties.
Learn from illustrations of Coast Miwok traditional lifeways.
Understand how Coast Miwok cultural practices have provided multi-generational sustainability.
Identify concepts of wellbeing in Coast Miwok lifeways and identify their personal and/or community lives that reflect wellbeing.
Lesson Overview
This lesson introduces the Coast Miwok people, homelands, and cultural lifeways that connect to wellbeing practices. Students will participate in an activity that centers wellbeing and understanding of Coast Miwok lifeways.
Teacher Background
This lesson is a brief introduction to Coast Miwok history and cultural lifeways. There is much more depth to all the concepts and experiences introduced in this lesson. Our worldview is similar to other tribes as our relationship to the places we are from is based on interconnectedness and reciprocal responsibility. Culture is essential to the continuing of lifeways. Although our traditional practices and ceremonies are similar among our neighboring tribes (the Ohlone, Pomo, Patwin and Wappo) they still are unique and specific to each of our tribal nations.