Kule Loklo ("Bear Valley") is a recreated

Coast Miwok Coast Miwok are an indigenous people that was the second-largest group of Miwok people. Coast Miwok inhabited the general area of modern Marin County and southern Sonoma County in Northern California, from the Golden Gate north to Duncans Point ...

Native American village located a short walk from the visitor center of the

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, in

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. Kule Loklo was originally created in the 1970s by the ''Miwok Archeological Preserve of Marin'' (MAPOM) as a tribute to Marin County's

indigenous people Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

, the Coast Miwoks. In 1992, the ceremonial roundhouse at Kule Loklo was destroyed by an arsonist; through an outpouring of community support, it was replaced with a larger roundhouse in 1993. As of 2022, the roundhouse is in disrepair. There is currently one annual public festival at Kule Loklo, the Big Time, held in late July, which features California Indian dancing and Native American

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Kule Loklo VolunteersHonoring the late Lanny PinolaMiwok Archeological Preserve of Marin (MAPOM)Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (Coast Miwoks)
DVD about

Julia F. Parker Julia Florence Parker (born February 1928) is a Coast Miwok- Kashaya Pomo basket weaver. Parker studied with some of the leading 20th century indigenous Californian basketweavers: Lucy Telles (Yosemite Miwok-Mono Lake Paiute); Mabel McKay, ( ...

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