[8] Their traditional houses, called "kotcha", were constructed with slabs of tule grass or redwood bark in a cone-shaped form.

A recreated Coast Miwok village called Kule Loklo is located at the Point Reyes National Seashore.

From speaking with Coast Miwok people in the early 1900s, Merriam believed that the Lekahtewutko and Hookooeko dialects were substantially the same.

Medicinal uses: The California Floristic province provides an abundant natural pharmacy for healing and known developed treatments for maladies include but are not limited to: analgesic (pain relief), hematology (blood purifier), snakebite, respiratory, gastrointestinal and dermatological (skin) applications.

Other methods include prescribed burns and generational management[15][page needed] of oak tree groves or stands.

Coast Miwok utilized various species for their intrinsic properties, fire and rot resistance, fiber strength, flexibility and color ect.

Specific plants were used for certain purposes: success for hunting, rites of passage, aiding fertility, protection and health, as well as mourning.

Coast Miwok people's world view included animism, and one form this took was the Kuksu religion that was evident in Central and Northern California.

[24] Kuksu was shared with other indigenous ethnic groups of Central California, such as their neighbors the Pomo, also Maidu, Ohlone, Esselen, and northernmost Yokuts.

However Kroeber observed less "specialized cosmogony" in the Miwok, which he termed one of the "southern Kuksu-dancing groups", in comparison to the Maidu and other northern California tribes.

[26] In their myths, legends, tales, and histories, the Coast Miwok participated in the general cultural pattern of Central California.

Evidence to suggest this migration path and timeline is supported by the theory of the Kelp Highway[4] and discovery of footprints in White Sands New Mexico[7] date of arrival as far back as 23–21,000 years ago.

[6] Documentation of Miwok peoples dates back as early as 1579 by a priest on a ship under the command of Sir Francis Drake.

[28][29] Over 1,000 prehistoric charmstones and numerous arrowheads have been unearthed at Tolay Lake in Southern Sonoma County – some dating back 4,000 years.

[33] Mission San Rafael was founded by the Spanish Franciscans in Coast Miwok territory in the late fall of 1817.

[29][38] By the beginning of California statehood (1850), many Miwok of Marin and Sonoma Counties were making the best of a difficult situation by earning their livelihoods through farm labor or fishing within their traditional homelands.

Near the time of secularization (1835), the Church granted the "San Rafael Christian Indians" 20 leagues[clarification needed] (80,000 acres or 32,000 hectares) of Mission lands from present-day Nicasio to the Tomales Bay.

The population was persuaded to leave in the 1880s when Marin County curtailed funds to all Miwok (except those at Marshall) who were not living at the Poor Farm, a place for indigent peoples.

[44] Revere forced enslaved Coast Miwok people to operate the plantation,[45][46][better source needed] selling timber and crops.

When this activity was neither in season nor profitable, Miwok people of this area sought agricultural employment, which required an itinerant lifestyle.