“UC Santa Cruz is located on the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe.
What Indigenous Peoples land are we on in the Bay Area?
The Ohlone are the predominant Indigenous group of the Bay Area, including the Chochenyo and the Karkin in East Bay, the Ramaytush in San Francisco, the Yokuts in South Bay and Central Valley, and the Muwekma tribe throughout the region.
Is Amah Mutsun an Ohlone?
We are the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. Our ancestors, collectively referred to by many as “Ohlone”, are the indigenous peoples of south-San Francisco and north-Monterey Bay area.
What is the Amah Mutsun land trust?
The Amah Mutsun Land Trust (AMLT), an initiative of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, is the vehicle by which the Amah Mutsun access, protect, and steward lands that are integral to our identity and culture. The AMLT returns our tribe to our ancestral lands and restores our role as environmental stewards.
Is Ohlone land Unceded?
The University of California Berkeley is located on the unceded land of the Chochenyo Ohlone. I live in Oakland, and I work and learn in Berkeley. Both cities sit in the territory of Huichin, part of the stolen land of the Chochenyo Ohlone, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County.
Where are the Ohlone now?
Today, there are small segments of the Ohlone people that still live in the Bay Area and continue to fight to keep their culture alive. Most of the tribes continue to preserve and revitalize their cultural history through education, restoration of their native languages, and the practice of cultural storytelling.
Where is Ohlone territory?
San Francisco
The Ohlone are Native American people located in the Northern California Coast, tribes inhabited areas from the coast of San Francisco through Monterey Bay to lower Salinas Valley. The Ohlone family of tribes have been living in the Bay Area for 10,000 years.
What does Amah Mutsun mean?
“The People
Introduction. The name Amah literally means “The People”, this is the case with most tribal names. To continue to develop the presence of Amah or “The People” of Santa Cruz we have developed the Mutsun Speaker Series.
Which tribe lived and worked at Mission Santa Cruz?
Ohlone Indians
In 1791, Father Fermin Francisco founded the Santa Cruz Mission. The site mostly served as a place to convert Ohlone Indians, a tribe native to the Santa Cruz region that still has activists in town to this day.
Who are the Amah Mutsun?
Today the Amah Mutsun Tribe is an active community of nearly 600 members, each of whom can trace their individual descent directly to a Mission San Juan Bautista Indian and/or a Mission Santa Cruz Indian. Some within the Tribe can tie their descendency to other Missions as well.
What Indians lived at San Juan Bautista?
the Mutsun Indians
Prior to the Spanish occupation of California, the San Juan Valley was the home of the Mutsun Indians. One of their village sites was on the eastern edge of San Juan Bautista. The Mutsun built the beehive-shaped huts of willow and coarse grass.
What did the Native Americans do at San Juan Bautista?
The Native Americans of the area were the Costanoan people. They helped raise livestock, construct buildings, and grow crops such as peas, corn, and wheat. Mission San Juan Bautista is very close to the San Andreas Fault (an active area of earthquakes).
How do you acknowledge Ohlone land?
We acknowledge the land and the peoples to whom this land belongs. This is Ohlone land and they are still here. We stand in solidarity with all indigenous people and their right to self-determination and justice.
Is Oakland Ohlone land?
Oakland and Berkeley sit in the territory of Huichin, part of the stolen land of the Chochenyo Muwekma Ohlone, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County.
Is Berkeley Ohlone land?
University Health Services recognizes that UC Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County.
Are there still Ohlone?
Although only about 500 Ohlone ancestors are alive, the research resurrects their history, Leventhal said. The tribe is still trying to achieve federal recognition.
Is Ohlone still spoken?
The last native speakers of Ohlone languages died by the 1950s. However, Chochenyo, Mutsun, and Rumsen are now in a state of revival (relearned from saved records).
How do I know if I have Native American DNA?
FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) has several tests that can help you narrow down if you have Native American ancestry, and can even help you find which side of your family those genes come from! Using the basic FTDNA autosomal test, you can find out whether or not your genes can be correlated with Indigenous American populations.
What tribal land is Oakland on?
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is based in Huchiun, in unceded Lisjan territory, what is now known as Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Piedmont, Emeryville and Albany, California. We have survived over two centuries of genocide and colonization during the Spanish, Mexican and American eras.
What native land is San Francisco?
“The Ramaytush (pronounced rah-my-toosh) are the only original people of the San Francisco Peninsula. In the baptismal records of Mission Dolores, Aramay referred specifically to the area containing the villages of Timigtac and Pruristac.
What land is Oakland on?
California College of the Arts campuses are located in Huichin and Yelamu, also known as Oakland and San Francisco, on the unceded territories of Chochenyo and Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, who have continuously lived upon this land since time immemorial.
