The Coast Miwoks: Traditional Food, Plants, and Homes

Dec 12, 2025

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The Coast Miwoks had a diverse diet, including acorns, fish, and berries, while avoiding snakes and lizards. Acorns served as a staple, stored in elevated granaries lined with bay leaves to deter pests. Key plants included tule for covering their homes (kotchas) and soap plant for making glue and painting supplies. Kotchas, constructed from willow branches and tule mats, were the Miwoks' traditional homes. This unique blend of food and resources highlights the Coast Miwoks' deep connection to their environment and cultural practices.

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The Coast Miwoks: Traditional Food, Plants, and Homes

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Coast Miwoks By: NaatyaAnukonda
Coast Miwoks ate lots of different kinds of food. Such as acorns, fish, and berries. Some of the animals they did not eat were snakes and lizards. Acorns were one of their main foods, they were stored in granaries that were on stilts to keep away small animals, granaries were lined with bay leaves.
The Coast Miwoks have many important plants such as soap plant and tule. Tule is used for covering kotchas. Kotchas are also used for making clothes such as skirts. Soap plant is used for glue, shampoo, and hunting fishing. The root hairs used for making paintbrushes.
Coast Miwok lived in houses called kotchas. A kotcha’s frame is made of willow branches, after the frame is made the Miwoks they cover it with mats of tule tied together.