Category: Shellmounds
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Alameda Shellmounds Web Map
Fully updated, featuring new historic wetlands, shorelines, and more. Available exclusively at the Alameda Native History Project. Find it on our website: NativeHistoryProject.org > Shellmounds > Alameda Shellmounds Web Map
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Alameda Shellmound Map Re-Released
More detailed Alameda historical ecology. All four Alameda Shellmounds. Featuring Alameda’s Ancient Live Oak Forest, Historic Shoreline, and Bay Area Historic Wetlands layers. All juxtaposed against the modern day landscape […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Alameda Museum Contract Expires
Should the City renew the agreement? On Monday, September 4, 2023, the City of Alameda’s five-year agreement with the Alameda Museum to provide archival storage expired. According to the agreement, […]
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Shellmounds and Their Relationship to the Waterbodies of the San Francisco Bay Basin
In the Indigenous Bay Area, water and life have always gone hand-in-hand. It was impossible to tell where the sea truly ended on this coast. Even inland, the San Francisco […]
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Historic San Francisco Bay Area Shoreline 1851-1887
Recently, I revisited some old map and GIS files in search of the vector file I used to show the historic shoreline of the Bay Area… As I took a […]
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Shellmounds: Spanish and American Influence on Indigenous Burial Practices and Shellmound Use
A shellmound is a graveyard, a mortuary complex, an ancient structure. It’s a place where the first peoples who live along the coasts and rivers of California, used to bury […]