Members of the Coast Miwok Indian Tribe will join an historic celebration Saturday marking the 190th Anniversary of the founding of Mission San Rafael Arcangel.  Tribal dignitaries will take part in what many consider a long overdue coming together of the church and the Miwoks, which had often been treated inhumanely by the Mission's fathers.
                (Mission Museum) 
     The Celebration will include showing of Miwok crafts, a Mass featuring recitation of the Lord's prayer in the Miwok language, and a reception hosted in part by tribal leader Terri Brunner, curator of the Mission Museum, welcomes the celebration, "a reconnection between the Coast Miwoks and the larger community."
(Mission Museum)
"When the Spanish came here, they were homeless and strangers: they made us homeless and strangers in our own homeland." Greg Sarris, Sonoma State Professor and current head of the Miwok Tribal Council.
           

If you go: 
Saturday's Celebration will begin at 4pm at St.Rafael's Church at 1104 Fifth Avenuen.  Indian artifacts from the Marin Museum of the American Indian will be on display, including duck decoys, clapper sticks, whistles, and reproductions of tule boats, some of them made by Indians.
At 5pm, Mass will be in the main church, Joanne Campbell, an Indian will recite the Lord's prayer in Miwok, and the Reverand Francis Quinn will officiate.
At 6pm, when the Mass is concluded, people will gather in the recreation hall of St.Raphael school for refreshments
and conversation and a talk by Greg Sarris, head of the Miwok tribal council.

Beth Ashley's Mission San Rafael Arcangel Celebrates 190th Anniversary Marin IJ Article