Tag: shellmounds
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 […]
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? […]
Alameda Shellmounds Web Map v2 Released
Fully updated, featuring new historic wetlands, shorelines, and more. Available exclusively at the Alameda Native History Project. Find it on our website: NativeHistoryProject.org > Maps > Alameda Shellmounds Web Map
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Alameda Shellmound Map
Please Note: A new version of the Alameda Shellmound Map (Version 2.0) was released on July 18, 2024. There’s a new map showing the Shellmounds of Alameda. It transposes the […]
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 […]
