Category: Featured Stories
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2024-2025 Cultural & Education Programming Announced!
The Alameda Native History Project is proud to announce their Cultural & Educational Program Offerings for 2024-2025!
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New Map: Historic Alameda Ecology
A Never-Before-Seen Map of Alameda’s Indigenous History Can you imagine elk running down Park Street? Cotton Tail Rabbits hopping among giant Live Oak trees on Grand? Gathering blackberries at Chochenyo Park?Oysters on Regent?Making tule boats at Alameda Point? This map combines historic elements to tell the story of Alameda before. Developed for elementary and middle-school…
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East Bay Indigenous History Resources
Where to find Selected Primary and Secondary Sources regarding the Native American (Indigenous) History of the East Bay. Sources for the studious, tenacious, and determined, scholars. Muwekma Ohlone Tribe Muwekma Ohlone Tribal Recognition Process US DOI Bureau of Indian Affairs, Petition #111 Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of San Francisco Bay, CA Muwekma Tribal Publications (Research Documents)Featuring…
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Alternatives to Shuumi (2023)
Wondering which Native American organizations you should give to on Giving Tuesday? Hopefully, when you read this, you already know that Shuumi Land Tax doesn’t really go to all Ohlone people. (But we don’t want to discourage your well-meaning intent and your need to help Indigenous people in anyway you can.) If you really want…
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Scarcity Mindset As A Hurdle to Museum Accountability
By now there should be no doubt that most museums, which display or hold Native American artifacts, directly benefit from grave robbing, or the often racist, prejudiced language and ignorant beliefs regarding Native Americans first uttered by now dead anthropologists [like Alfred Kroeber], and perpetuated by the ailing volunteers and aging septuagenarians responsible for interpreting…
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99% of Alameda Museum’s Ohlone Artifacts Were Stolen from Native American Graves
We’ve found a pattern of reckless and careless treatment of 100% of those stolen artifacts. The Alameda Museum has roughly 186 Native American Artifacts. All of those artifacts were found in connection with Native American Graves, except for 2. So, we can’t say ALL of the artifacts are grave goods. But we can say: 99.93%…
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Elizabeth Hoover Should Resign
May 1, 2023, Elizabeth Hoover issues a statement admitting that she used her non-existent Mohawk and Mi’kmaq ancestry to get to where she is today… But it was her “experience and expertise” which helped her become a professor–not the fact that she gained said experience an expertise from impersonating an indigenous person. This isn’t the…