The Bay Area's first people want more than to merely exist: They're seeking federal recognition of their tribal status, which would give them the same benefits as other Native American tribes.

The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe is one descendant community of the Ohlone people, who originally lived on 4.3 million acres in the Bay Area. For decades, the Muwekma have sought to regain federally ...

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Since the 1970s, however, Ohlone people have worked with elders and scholars to revitalize language and culture as they reassert rights to ancestral lands. “We made it cool to be Ohlone again in ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- As we honor Indigenous People's Day we are highlighting the work a group of Ohlone women is doing to fight for their cultural heritage and get their land back.

The struggle of the Ohlone people is documented in a traveling exhibit that’s due to open at the California History Center on the De Anza College campus on Oct. 23. The Sayers have a saying ...

In 1925, the influential anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber, who led the museum for 38 years, declared the Ohlone people “extinct,” which two years later resulted in a loss of federal tribal ...

For thousands of years, the Ohlone people lived in the area between the San Francisco Bay and the Monterey Bay. When the Spanish missionaries arrived in the 1700s, they brought smallpox and other ...

Ohlone people and others rejoiced Wednesday over the return of sacred Native land dating back thousands of years, saying the move rights a historic wrong and restores the people who were first on ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Ohlone people and others rejoiced Wednesday over the return of sacred Native land dating back thousands of years, saying the move rights a historic wrong and restores the ...