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Chief Marin. Chief Marin (c. 1781 – March 15, 1839) was the "great chief of the tribe Licatiut " (a branch of Coast Miwok native to present-day Marin County, California ), according to General Vallejo 's semi-historical report to the first California State Legislature in 1850.
- Chief of Licatiut
- c. 1781, Marin County, California, U.S.
- (1) Marina Mottiqui, (2) Dona, (3) Juana
- March 15, 1839, Mission San Rafael Arcángel, California, U.S.
Courtesy of Museum of the American Indian. By now most residents of Marin County have heard the name of the legendary Miwok leader “Chief Marin,” for whom the county was named. But Marin was neither his Miwok name, nor the one that the Spanish missionaries gave him. His original name was Huicmuse (pronounced hwik-moose ), and the Spanish ...
Chief Marin was a Coast Miwok of the Huimen local tribe, baptized at around age 20 in 1801 at Mission San Francisco and noted as an alcalde at Mission San Rafael in the 1820s. He died on March 15, 1839. Marin County and the Marin Islands are named in his honor.
Chief Marin was a Coast Miwok Indian who lived in the first half of the 19th century, a boatman or mariner valued for his knowledge of the tides who became an official witness at baptisms ...
Marin had been named "Huicmuse" until he was baptized as "Marino" at about age 20. Marin / Marino was born into the Huimen people, a Coast Miwok tribe of Native Americans who inhabited the San Rafael area. Vallejo believed that "Chief Marin" had waged several fierce battles against the Spanish.
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- Chief Marin, "great chief of the tribe Licatiut"
- San Rafael (population), Novato (area)
- California
13 de fev. de 2018 · Many assume that Marin became an abbreviation of that rather lengthy nomenclature. The other, possibly more accepted source of the name Marin, involves an Indian chief, Chief Marin, who died either in 1834 or 1848, the year of which has never been firmly established.
Marin County was named after Chief Marin (whose native American name was Huicmuse ), an 18th-century leader of the Licatiut, a branch of the Coast Miwok. Chief Marin lived toward the end of the era of Spanish rule in Alta California, a period of severe decline for the Coast Miwok and other native American tribes, whose populations were ...
