A rare biography of a California Indian Leader that weaves together the story of a legendary figure.
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..
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.
A rare biography of a California Indian Leader that weaves together the story of a legendary figure