Land & Sacred Sites
Land return, sacred sites, ancestral remains, water, and the places the Ohlone have never stopped calling home.
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The Muwekma Ohlone brought fire back to an oak woodland. A new study says the soil came through.
In January, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe held its first cultural burn in nearly 150 years, at Stanford’s Jasper Ridge preserve. A peer-reviewed study co-written by the Tribe’s leaders finds the low, careful…
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The Bidwell Mansion burned. Now the Mechoopda are asking for the land beneath it back.
Nearly two years after fire gutted Chico’s Bidwell Mansion, the Mechoopda Indian Tribe has laid out a plan to take back the state park, rename it and raise a Maidu village where…
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Region briefs: Clear Lake tribes win a co-management pact, the cardroom war heads to appeal, and the fine print leaves unrecognized tribes out
Seven Pomo and Lake Miwok tribes signed California’s first watershed co-management agreement under a 2024 law. A second cultural burn agreement is coming. And the fight between gaming tribes and cardrooms, including…
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“Sixteen years to fight for this land”: An Ohlone nation gets 84 acres back near Monterey
The Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation now owns 84 acres off Highway 68, returned by Big Sur Land Trust with state money after a 16-year campaign. In Oakland, Ohlone stories are moving onto a puppet…
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Trump’s new Presidio board has a plan for housing and a power grid. The Ohlone aren’t in it.
Five months after the White House replaced the Presidio Trust board, its new leaders have set their priorities: 196 apartments and a modernized power grid. The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe’s 2025 request to…
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Newsom signs an apology to California Indians, then vetoes three bills they fought for
On Sept. 25 Gov. Gavin Newsom signed ten tribal bills, including a formal state apology, a Native American Day holiday and a permanent Office of Tribal Affairs. Within days he vetoed bills…
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Muwekma Ohlone Tribe asks President Trump to repatriate the Presidio, proclaim an Indian reservation
San Francisco, CA – March 12, 2025 – The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe has made a historic appeal to President Donald J. Trump, formally requesting the return of the Presidio of San Francisco to…
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Muwekma Ohlone Trail of Truth joins protest of uranium transport on Dine lands
The Trail of Truth — an indigenous liberation movement currently on its way to Washington, DC — will be joining Haul No to stand in solidarity against the mining of uranium at…
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