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  Corrina Gould: The Myth Of Lisjan, and the Erosion of Tribal SovereigntyNovember 13, 2025
  Author’s Note (Updated November 13, 2025) There are a number of things I want to say about this article: First, this is a culmination of 5+ years of research and investigation. And it was only because of the Official Statement by the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area [included in full at… Read more: Corrina Gould: The Myth Of Lisjan, and the Erosion of Tribal Sovereignty
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  Ozone Treated Acorns: Basis for Analytical Testing Before Food UseNovember 9, 2025
  By Gabriel Duncan, Researcher, Alameda Native History Project Ozone is increasingly discussed as a way to manage stored acorns intended for food. It is already permitted in the United States as an antimicrobial agent for certain food uses when applied under good manufacturing practice. Because acorns are rich in unsaturated fats, the question is not… Read more: Ozone Treated Acorns: Basis for Analytical Testing Before Food Use
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  Building the Acorn Leaching MachineNovember 2, 2025
  An update from the ACORNS! Project Arc Thank you for all of your support. For coming to our events, playing with the maps on our website, volunteering for the Acorn Harvest, and for checking out our printed maps and other merch. I am writing to you now because I want you to know that your… Read more: Building the Acorn Leaching Machine
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  Alameda Was Made with Real Bones, TooOctober 31, 2025
  Poltergeist Was Fiction.Alameda Was Real. In one of the most famous scenes from the 1982 movie Poltergeist, a suburban home begins to collapse into chaos. A mother, played by JoBeth Williams, slips into a half-finished swimming pool as a storm rages above her. The water churns with mud, lightning flashes, and dozens of corpses rise… Read more: Alameda Was Made with Real Bones, Too
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  Growing Up on the The Alameda ShellmoundOctober 28, 2025
  Ohlone people buried their loved ones in mounds long before any of us ever came here. They’re called shellmounds. The “Ancient Indian Burial Mounds” of Ohlone people–ancestors of the present-day Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area. They were built long before any of this was here. Long before some old dead white… Read more: Growing Up on the The Alameda Shellmound
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  The ACORNS! Project ArcOctober 18, 2025
  A Living Model for Indigenous-Led Environmental and Cultural Restoration The ACORNS! Project Arc is an Indigenous-led initiative of the Alameda Native History Project that restores the living relationship between people, oaks, and the land that sustains them. It was created to provide tangible tribal benefit by rebuilding systems of reciprocity where cultural revitalization and environmental… Read more: The ACORNS! Project Arc

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