# Olompali, California

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Former settlement in California, United States

Olompali Olómpali Õlõmpõ'llï Former settlement Olompali Location in California Coordinates: 38°09′N 122°34′W / 38.150°N 122.567°W / 38.150; -122.567 Country United States State California County Marin County

**Olompali** ([Coast Miwok](/source/Coast_Miwok_language):*Õlõmpõ'llï*;[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] [Spanish](/source/Spanish_language): Olómpali)[1] is a former [Native American](/source/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States) settlement in [Marin County, California](/source/Marin_County%2C_California).[2] It was located 5 miles (8 km) south of [Petaluma](/source/Petaluma%2C_California).[2]

Its site now lies within the [Olompali State Historic Park](/source/Olompali_State_Historic_Park).

## Geography

The site lies on the waterfront at the foot of Burdell Mountain.[3]

## History

The name comes from the [Coast Miwok](/source/Coast_Miwok) language *Olompais*[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] and likely means "southern village" or "southern people".[4][5] The Coast Miwok had inhabited a site within the State Historic Park continuously from as early as [6000 BC](/source/6000_BC).[5] Unlike other settlements in the Bay Area that required seasonal migrations for year-round feeding, the resources available around Olompali made the village occupied all year-round.[3]

Olompali had been a main center in 1200, and might have been the largest native village in Marin County.[4]

According to senior state archeologist E. Breck Parkman, a secret matriarchal society, the *Máien*, existed among the Indigenous people of the Bay Area, including the Olompali people. Between 1816 and 1818, 10 Máien women from Olompali were baptized in the [Mission San Jose de Guadalupe](/source/Mission_San_Jos%C3%A9_(California)).[6] Records also show that between 1814 and 1822, 250 members of the Olompali settlement were baptized.[3]

After California became part of the United States, its last-standing chief Ynitia (born Huemox) was able to maintain ownership over Olompali.[3]

An article in the *Marin Journal* from March 1911 mentions that relics and remains of the Olompali people were still scattered all across the county. [Mounds](/source/Mound) of shell and soil from their settlement have been leveled in 1874 and 1875, and used to fill land in Marin County.[7]

## Bibliography

- Carlson, Pamela McGuire, and E. Breck Parkman, *An Exceptional Adaptation: Camillo Ynitia, the Last Headman of the Olompalis*, California History 65 (4): 238–247, 309–310. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1986

- Charles M. Slaymaker, *Cry for Olompali*, privately printed, 1972

## See also

- [Rancho Olompali](/source/Rancho_Olompali)

- [Miwok villages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Miwok_villages)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Alfred Louis Kroeber, Samuel Alfred Barrett, [University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology`](https://books.google.com/books?id=kBlGAQAAMAAJ), *Google.com*, 1908

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-gnis_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-gnis_2-1) [U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Olompali, California](https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/1809036)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-baynature_rooted_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-baynature_rooted_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-baynature_rooted_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-baynature_rooted_3-3) [Rooted in History](https://baynature.org/article/rooted-in-history/), *Baynature.org*, 1 January 2003

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Reutinger_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Reutinger_4-1) Reutinger, Joan. *[Olompali Park Filled With History](https://web.archive.org/web/19980201002108/http://coastalpost.com/97/9/13.htm)*, The Coastal Post, Sept. 1997.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Park_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Park_5-1) [Olompali State Historic Site Website](http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=465)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** E. Breck Parkman, [The Máien: A Women’s Secret Society on San Francisco Bay](https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/22491/files/the_maien_secret_california_indian_womens_society_on_san_francisco_bay.pdf), *Parks.gov.ca*, 10 October 2006

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Olompali relics](https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MJ19110330.2.16), *Marin Journal*, 30 March 1911

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