Pruristac Village by Amy Hosa and Linda Yamane, 2019 (from Sanchez Adobe in Pacifica)
Websites, Articles & Information
Local Tribe Websites
- Amah Mutsun Ohlone (of parts of Santa Cruz County Gilroy, and Coyote Valley area)
- Lisjan Ohlone (of the East Bay): Villages of Lisjan & Sogorea Te Land Trust (of the East Bay)
- Muwekma Ohlone (primarily of the East Bay and South Bay area)
- Ramaytush Ohlone (of the San Francisco Peninsula)
- Tamien Nation (of southern Santa Clara county and parts of Santa Cruz)
Monte Loma Park History in Mountain View; Scroll down to “The First Inhabitants of our Neighborhood” and stories about the Castro Shell Mound.
Native American Heritage Commission: California Indigenous People Webpage; includes maps and digital atlas, webinars, list of tribes with links, history and laws, timelines of genocide, many other resources.
POST Open Space Trust to Protect Open Space on the Peninsula and in the South Bay for the benefit of all; Partnering with the Muwekma Ohlone for a brighter future.
UCC Website; “Doctrine of Discovery”
UN Website: 2012: UN wrestles with “Doctrine of Discovery”
UUA Website: “Repudiating and dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery”;2012; also information from World Council of Churches, Episcopal, United Methodist, Menonite, Quaker)
Native American Heritage Commission: California Indigenous People Webpage; includes maps and digital atlas, webinars, list of tribes with links, history and laws, timelines of genocide, many other resources.
POST Open Space Trust to Protect Open Space on the Peninsula and in the South Bay for the benefit of all; Partnering with the Muwekma Ohlone for a brighter future.
UCC Website; “Doctrine of Discovery”
UN Website: 2012: UN wrestles with “Doctrine of Discovery”
UUA Website: “Repudiating and dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery”;2012; also information from World Council of Churches, Episcopal, United Methodist, Menonite, Quaker)
Articles
“First governor of California Peter Burnett offered $10 or $15 bounty for every dead Indian”
“Genocide of Indigenous Peoples began with the Missions”
“Genocide of Indigenous Peoples began with the Missions”
Books
A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1810; by Randall Milliken. 1995. “…describes the independent Native American nations that lived in the Bay Area, their reaction to Spanish influence, and their choices when confronted with the mission system. It studies the circumstances under which tribal members joined missions, and recounts their subsequent experiences."
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The Ohlone: Past and Present, Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay Region, 1994; Ed by Lowell Bean, Phd. First book of its kind. From the Ohlone Scholars Conference (1992). “...remedies a long -standing wrong, the neglect of the Indians of the San Francisco Bay Area in the published anthropological literature, and especially the all-too-common statement in that literature to the effect that the Ohlone (or Costanoans) have long been extinct. Here we have the living descendants of the people found here by the Spanish missionaries and explorers in the 1770s telling us how very much present they are in the 1990s.”
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The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area: by Malcolm Margolin, 1978. “One of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, The Ohlone Way describes the culture of the Indian people who inhabited the Bay Area prior to the arrival of Europeans." |
We Are The Land: A History of Native California; By Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr., 2021, University of California Press. “...centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, it recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood…and in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.“ |
Open Space Trust: 13 Books that will make you rethink California’s Indigenous history: by Matt Dolcas, Nov. 1, 2021; “Our staff came together to share our favorite books on California’s Indigenous people, worth the read if you’re looking to better understand the true stories of our home state’s first nation.”
Videos
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California Historical Society: Writing the Land with Greg Sarris “Celebrated storyteller and tribal leader Greg Sarris explores how …Native American communities have preserved cultural heritage through the power of story…” Sarris shares insights of the Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo ancestors… and underscores the urgency of what these inherited wisdoms and the rise of Native American literature have to teach us in the era of climate breakdown. (July 1, 2022)
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Dr. Jonathan Cordero and Greg Castro video presentation “We are OF the land” with Fine Arts Museums of SF; Ohlone Land Acknowledgement series (Aug. 2022; shown at FCCPA at forum on 5-29-22)
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Foothill College Archaeology Instructor Mark Hylkema: “Indigenous history in the Bay Area” (70 min video)
History and Heritage: Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area”; Alan Leventhal webinar by Los Altos History Museum
Stanford Professor Michael Wilcox: “Muwekma Ohlone- Landscapes, History and the Narratives of California” (57 min.)
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Stanford grad student Ariel Bobbett: Juristac lands (4 min video)
(Available to use for teaching with other churches to bring support to the sacred Juristac lands in Santa Clara County.) |
Stanford Historical Society: “Searsville before Stanford” by Laura Jones, a Stanford archeologist that teaches about the indigenous peoples as well as Spanish and Mexicans. (4/27/2022)
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UCC of Minnesota: Roxanne Gould, an Indigenous speaker, and Emily Fries, a UCC pastor, speaking about the “Doctrine of Discovery” which established a spiritual, political, and legal justification for colonization and seizure of land not inhabited by Christians in 1100.(28 min)