Muwekma Ohlone Tribe
Publications
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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Part 3 of 3 (PDF 4,425 KB)