Olompali (

Coast Miwok The Coast Miwok are an Indigenous people of California that were the second-largest tribe of the Miwok people. Coast Miwok inhabited the general area of present-day Marin County and southern Sonoma County in Northern California, from the Golde ...

:''Õlõmpõ'llï'';

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: Olómpali) is a former Native American settlement in

Marin County, California Marin County ( ) is a County (United States), county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 262,231. Its county seat a ...

. It was located south of

Petaluma Petaluma is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Its population was 59,776 according to the 2020 census. Petaluma's name comes from the Miwok village named ''Péta ...

. Its site now lies within the

Olompali State Historic Park Olompali State Historic Park is a California State Park in Marin County, California. It consists of the former Rancho Olómpali and was the site of the famed Battle of Olómpali during the Bear Flag Revolt. Rancho Olómpali was purchased by th ...

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The site lies on the waterfront at the foot of Burdell Mountain.Rooted in History
''Baynature.org'', 1 January 2003

History

The name comes from the

language ''Olompais'' and likely means "southern village" or "southern people".Reutinger, Joan. ', The Coastal Post, Sept. 1997.Olompali State Historic Site Website
/ref> The Coast Miwok had inhabited a site within the State Historic Park continuously from as early as

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. Unlike other settlements in the Bay Area that required seasonal migrations for year-round feeding, the resources available around Olompali made the village occupied all year-round. Olompali had been a main center in 1200, and might have been the largest native village in Marin County. According to senior state archeologist E. Breck Parkman, a secret matriarchal society, the ''Máien'', existed among the Indigenous people of the Bay Area, including the Olompali people. Between 1816 and 1818, 10 Máien women from Olompali were baptized in the Mission San Jose de Guadalupe. Records also show that between 1814 and 1822, 250 members of the Olompali settlement were baptized. After California became part of the United States, its last-standing chief Ynitia (born Huemox) was able to maintain ownership over Olompali. An article in the ''Marin Journal'' from March 1911 mentions that relics and remains of the Olompali people were still scattered all across the county.

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s of shell and soil from their settlement have been leveled in 1874 and 1875, and used to fill land in Marin County.Olompali relics
''Marin Journal'', 30 March 1911

Bibliography

*Carlson, Pamela McGuire, and E. Breck Parkman, ''An Exceptional Adaptation: Camillo Ynitia, the Last Headman of the Olompalis'', California History 65 (4): 238–247, 309–310. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1986 *Charles M. Slaymaker, ''Cry for Olompali'', privately printed, 1972

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Miwok villages History of Marin County, California Former settlements in Marin County, California Former Native American populated places in California {{MarinCountyCA-geo-stub

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