Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area

Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area Mákkin Mak Muwékma Wolwóolum, ’Akkoy Mak-Warep, Manne Mak Hiswi!

06/12/2026

Some truths continue whether or not they are formally acknowledged. We don’t suddenly begin existing the moment institutions decide to recognize us. Voice, identity, memory, belonging, these things are carried long before we are recorded, validated, or spoken about publicly.

There are communities who have spent generations continuing quietly and steadily, even while being overlooked by the systems around them. Holding on to language. Protecting ceremony. Teaching children. Remembering the land as more than property. We have never stopped speaking. What changes now is whether others are willing to listen with care, attention, and responsibility.

06/10/2026

People often speak about land acknowledgements as though they are symbolic gestures. Something polite. Something brief said before moving on to the real conversation. But what if the acknowledgement is the real conversation?

Because saying the name Muwekma Ohlone Tribe means recognising that this land carried history, community, language, ceremony, and belonging long before modern borders, institutions, or cities existed here. It means understanding that Indigenous presence is not abstract or ancient. It is living, current, and continuous. And maybe that is where the discomfort begins. Not in hearing the acknowledgement, but in realising what it asks us to do after hearing it.

To remember that the Bay Area is not disconnected from the people whose homeland it has always been. To sit with the fact that recognition is still unresolved. To understand that once a story is truly heard, it becomes harder to look away from what still needs to change.

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Support does not always arrive in the form of headlines. Sometimes, it arrives through letters, statements, and people w...
06/09/2026

Support does not always arrive in the form of headlines. Sometimes, it arrives through letters, statements, and people willing to put their names behind what they believe is right. This letter from the International Indian Treaty Council stands as one such act of support. It reflects a broader recognition of the history, continuity, and ongoing efforts surrounding the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe’s fight for federal recognition.

Over the years, many organisations, leaders, institutions, and community groups have spoken in support of the our tribe. These documents become part of a larger record, one that shows this story has been witnessed, acknowledged, and carried by many voices beyond ours.
Support matters not only because it strengthens a cause, but because it reminds a community that its history has not gone unseen.

06/06/2026

This World Environment Day, we honor the land, waters, and living beings that have sustained generations before us.

For the Muwekma Ohlone people, caring for the environment is not a trend it is a responsibility passed down through time. The Bay, the forests, the creeks, and the wildlife are not separate from us; they are part of our shared story.

As we look toward the future, we continue to protect, restore, and respect the natural world that connects us all.

Let’s care for the Earth with the same respect we would show our family.

Happy World Environment Day.

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06/04/2026

Before it was a park. Before, it was a military base. It was home. For 10,000 years, the Ohlone people lived in and cared for the land we now call the Presidio of San Francisco.
But colonial history chose to build forts and missions not to protect the land, but to displace its people.

When the military left in 1992, the Ohlone formally sought the return of the Presidio to Indigenous stewardship. They were denied.
Today, it’s a public park open to everyone except the very people it truly belongs to.

We are still here. We never left. And we aren't asking for sympathy we are reclaiming what has always been ours.
Scan the QR code to stand with us, support the movement, and help us return home.

In Chochenyo, Hoowok means beads. Small things, carefully made and carried, often hold more than decoration. They hold m...
06/01/2026

In Chochenyo, Hoowok means beads. Small things, carefully made and carried, often hold more than decoration. They hold memory, artistry, identity, and the continuation of cultural practice through generations.

A single bead may seem delicate on its own, but together, they become something meant to last. For tour tribe, words like these are part of a living language that continues to move through community, ceremony, and everyday life.

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We continue to be present across the Bay Area, in classrooms, community spaces, land acknowledgements, cultural gatherin...
05/31/2026

We continue to be present across the Bay Area, in classrooms, community spaces, land acknowledgements, cultural gatherings, and conversations about the future of this land. And yet, despite that visible presence, federal recognition still remains unresolved.

This contradiction sits at the center of our fight; how can a people be acknowledged across institutions, cities, and communities, while still being denied recognition by the government built upon their ancestral homelands? This has never been a story about disappearance. Only the distance between what exists in reality and what is reflected on paper.

Languages do not survive only in dictionaries or archives. More often, they survive in people, in memory, in repetition,...
05/30/2026

Languages do not survive only in dictionaries or archives. More often, they survive in people, in memory, in repetition, in the quiet decision to keep carrying something forward even when history tries to interrupt it.

For our tribe, Chochenyo continued through families, through ceremony, through words spoken softly enough to be protected but strongly enough to endure. It remained present in the names of places, in cultural practice, and in the generations who refused to let that connection disappear.

That is why this is not simply a story of language revival. Revival suggests something vanished completely before returning. Chochenyo never fully left. It was carried. Quietly, carefully, and continuously.

For us, recognition has never been a simple application waiting for approval. It has meant decades of research, legal pr...
05/28/2026

For us, recognition has never been a simple application waiting for approval. It has meant decades of research, legal processes, archived records, testimony, and continuous community labor carried across generations.
So much of this work remains unseen, the hours spent tracing family histories, preserving documentation, attending hearings, and continuing forward despite delay after delay. And still, the fight continues. Not alone, but through the people who carry it, support it, and choose to stand beside it.

If you would like to support the tribe’s ongoing Trail of Truth, you can scan the QR code and be part of that effort.

The Trail of Truth reaches the Shinnecock Nation — making it from coast to coast — in October 2024.
05/26/2026

The Trail of Truth reaches the Shinnecock Nation — making it from coast to coast — in October 2024.

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