Category: Top Stories
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July 2024 Acorn Granary Challenge
Announcing our month-long series of classes and workshops. Join us as we come together to build the acorn granaries that will hold all of the acorns we gather together during the City-Wide Acorn Harvest in September & October. Don’t be intimidated by the “challenge” aspect. Survival is actually a collaborative process that takes the efforts…
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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 with Native Pride! A small run of prints are available now on our merch page. Get yours before they run out! For real, though, once…
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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 wrong,’ to return shellmound site to Ohlone people“ You are being misled. Here’s a breakdown of how these articles are misleading, and what the truth…
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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 “Lisjan” isn’t even an Ohlone word. “Lisjan” is what Nisenan People call the city of Pleasanton, California. And, just to be clear: Pleasanton wasn’t called…
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Alameda Native History Project Announces Fiscal Sponsorship
Since Alameda Native History Project started as a small research project in 2019, it has been run using the pocket money of its founder, Gabriel Duncan. As the Alameda Native History Project started to become larger, and more established; being able to budget for upcoming events, meetings, classroom presentations, (and more) is becoming a vital…
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Who are the Lisjan Ohlone? What does Chochenyo mean?
Who are “The Lisjan Ohlone”? This article will introduce you to where Lisjan is; who “Lisjan Ohlone” are, what what “Viva Lisjanes” means. Where is Lisjan? Why does it seem like Ohlone people are only in the South Bay? Because the Spanish Missions in the Bay Area were in San Francisco and the South Bay.…
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Alameda Shellmound Map
There’s a new map showing the Shellmounds of Alameda. It transposes the historic alameda shoreline onto the modern-day silohuette of the city. The map shows historic wetlands and tidal marshes, and the four Alameda Shellmounds. Map of theShellmounds of Huchiun,~Muwekma Ohlone Territory~Showing the Area Now Known As The“City of Alameda” By: Gabriel Duncan Description of…
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Fallon Statue Removal in San Jose Cause For Hope & Celebration
On the morning of Friday, August 4th, 2023, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc, their supporters, members of the press, and San Jose government officials (and their designees.) Gathered at the site where a statue of Captain Thomas Fallon was “immortalized” in bronze to commemorate the moment when Fallon rose American Flag for the…
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Shuumi Does Not Benefit Ohlone Tribe
Most people are familiar with the Confederated Villages of the Lisjan Nation, INC.; and their fundraising (“trust”) corporation known as Sogorea Te Land Trust, INC. Both are fronted by Corrina Gould, an Ohlone woman, who has managed to command the attention and monies from thousands of people in the San Francisco Bay Area, and beyond.…
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Alameda Museum: 74 Years of White History?
The Alameda Museum was founded in 1948; seventy-four years ago. It is a public institution, which is dedicated to fostering public interest in the history of Alameda. The mission of the Alameda Museum is three-fold: In these 74 years, the Alameda Museum has focused almost exclusively on a few things in Alameda’s history: On its…