Category: Featured
First Annual Acorn Harvest Begins
Alameda Native History Project is proud to partner with our awesome and enthusiastic and diverse community for Alameda’s First Annual Acorn Harvest! Acorn season is upon us! The streets are […]
I Found Bones In My Backyard, What Do I do?
You are on Native Land. Alameda is hallowed ground. The site of no less than four “Ancient Indian Burial Mounds.” (We call them Shellmounds now.) The resting place of Ohlone […]
Muwekma Ohlone Tribe Marches on California Capitol
August 8, 2024 – Sacramento, California It’s morning at the Muwekma horse camp in West Sacramento, on the other side of the river from the California Capitol Building. Riders are […]
Muwekma Ohlone Tribe Sets Off on Trail of Truth with Chrissy Field Rally, and Golden Gate Bridge March
August 4, 2024 – San Francisco, Calif. Hundreds of supports gather at Chrissy to give the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area a rousing send-off as they […]
Acorn Granary Challenge Produces Storage For 2024 Harvest
What is an Acorn Granary? Acorn Granaries are traditional Native American storage containers used to hold foods like dried berries, rice, squash, and tree nuts…. (In this case: acorns from […]
New Map Shows Pre-1900 Alameda In Exquisite Detail
What did Alameda look like before the Oakland Estuary was dredged out; and Bay Farm, South Shore, and the West End were filled in? Where was the Live Oak Forest? […]
Save Shellmounds (Not Parking Lots)
Shellmounds are ancient structures created by thousands of years of indigenous occupation. Shellmounds are cemeteries, or mortuary complexes. The final resting places of the first people to live in this […]
BART Decolonized: Travel the Indigenous Bay
It’s The Bay The Indigenous Bay, that is. Alameda Native History Project has remixed the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) System Map to show: Travel the Indigenous Bay […]
Sogorea Te Land Trust is Not an Ohlone Organization
When you read articles like: “Controversial Berkeley shellmound burial site to be returned to Ohlone“ “Berkeley buys Ohlone shellmound, returns it to Indigenous people“ “City aims to ‘right a historic […]
Who, What, and Where is Lisjan?
“Lisjan” has been referred to as a Traditional Ohlone Village Site, in East Oakland. Both the San Leandro Creek, and San Lorenzo Creek bear the name of “Lisjan” creek. But […]