Muwekma Ohlone Tribe

Publications

UNDERSTANDING THE COMPOSITION OF COSTANOAN/OHLONE PEOPLE Mar 2024

When Christopher Columbus landed on the Caribbean Islands off the eastern shores of North America, he thought that he had reached the western shores of India. Operating under a misunderstanding of his true location, he assumed that the people he saw were citizens of India

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SISKÁ ‘E HÉEMETEYA PUICHON WOLWÓOLUM Mar 2024

The lands of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve were once inhabited by the Puichon Ohlone tribe of the western regions of the San Francisco Bay Area. Randall Miliken, describes the Puichon Ohlone, in his ethnographic account of the San Francisco Bay Ohlone tribal groups, as follows

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ETHNOHISTORY, HISTORIC TIES, AND TRIBAL STEWARDSHIP OF SUNOL/PLEASANTON, SANTA CLARA VALLEY, AND ADJACENT AREAS Mar 2024

The present-day Muwekma Ohlone Tribe is comprised of surviving American Indian lineages aboriginal to the San Francisco Bay region who trace their ancestry through the Missions Dolores, Santa Clara, and San Jose; and who were also members of the historic federally recognized Verona Band of Alameda County.

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Community-Based Archaeology at Síi Túupentak in the San Francisco Bay Area Mar 2024

This paper presents an example of a community-based archaeological study in the southeast San Francisco Bay Area by the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, joined by an interdisciplinary team of researchers. The nature and breadth of this cooperative effort is presented, highlighting the Tribe’s perspective on project goals, the nature of their involvement, and their initiative in addressing ancestral remains and funerary regalia.

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Daughters breastfed longer, and women accumulated greater wealth in ancient California matriarchal society July 2023

Women managed important food resources, which may have incentivized parents to invest more in female offspring and to female-biased wealth disparities.

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Mapping Erasure - The Power of Nominative Cartography in the Past and Present of the Muwekma Ohlones of the San Francisco Bay Area June 2013

By: Les W. Field with Alan Leventhal and Rosemary Cambra

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Ohlone/Costanoan Indians of the San Francisco Peninsula and their Neighbors, Yesterday and Today June 2009

By: Randall Milliken, Laurence H. Shoup, and Beverly R. Ortiz

Prepared by: Archaeological and Historical Consultants, Oakland, California

Prepared for: National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, California

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Unacknowledged Tribes, Dangerous Knowledge The Muwekma Ohlone and How Indian Identities Are “Known” Fall 2003

By: Les Field (with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe)

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“What Must It Have Been Like!” - Critical Considerations of Precontact Ohlone Cosmology as Interpreted through Central California Ethnohistory Fall 2003

By: Les Field and Alan Leventhal

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The Ohlone Back From Extinction November 1994

By: Alan Leventhal, Les Field, Hank Alvarez and Rosemary Cambra

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A Contemporary Ohlone Tribal Revitalization Movement: A Perspective From the Muwekma Costanoan/Ohlone Indians of the San Francisco Bay Area Fall 1992

By: Les Field, Alan Leventhal, Dolores Sanchez, and Rosemary Cambra

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