Gathered by the Honoring Indigenous Peoples Group. You are welcome to submit additions via our contact form.
Websites
THE OHLONE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
- A brief introduction to the Ohlone
- Living on Ohlone Land (by Andrea Guzman for Oakland Public Library)
- Living on Ohlone Land (by Will Parrish, East Bay Express, 2018)
- UC Berkeley page with land acknowledgment, map and more
- Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Ohlone/Costanoan Indians of the San Francisco Peninsula and Their Neighbors, Yesterday and Today by Randall Milliken, Laurence H. Shoup, and Beverly R. Ortiz for National Park Service, 2009
- Ohlone Curriculum with Bay Miwok Content and Introduction to the Delta Yokuts
- Native Peoples of the East Bay Past to Present (East Bay Regional Park District)
Local organizations
- https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/
- “These Indigenous Women Are Reclaiming Stolen Land in the Bay Area” article, Yes Magazine
- The West Berkeley Shellmound Ohlone Heritage Site and Sacred Grounds
- Video on vision for the West Berkeley Shellmound
- Good Guest Kensington
The University of California at Berkeley and Indigenous peoples
- Land Grab U – 2020 study in High Country News
- Daily Cal article on Land Grab U-related forum
- ProPublica 2023 article on UCB and repatriation
THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF CALIFORNIA
- Native California Research Institute
- Untold History: The Survival of California’s Indians
- http://roadmaptoresearch.dot.ca.gov/index.html
- Native Land: worldwide maps of territories, languages and treaties
- News from Native California blog
OTHER INDIGENOUS WEBSITES
- https://www.nativehope.org/ (has a blog, Voices of Indian Country)
- Native News Online offers a free daily e-newsletter
- Indigenous Environmental Network
“Honor taxes” and related approaches
- Voluntary Land Taxes https://nativegov.org/voluntary-land-taxes/
- The Honor Tax Project http://www.honortax.org/
- Real Rent Duwamish: in Seattle area https://www.realrentduwamish.org/
Land acknowledgments
- Honor Native Land: A Guide and Call to Acknowledgment
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_CAyH4WUfQXTXo3MjZHRC00ajg/view - Ramaytush Ohlone suggested San Francisco land acknowledgment: https://americanindianculturaldistrict.org/ramaytush-land-acknowledgement
- Acknowledging the Original People of This Land
https://ljist.com/featured/acknowledging-indigenous-people/ - A Guide for Land Acknowledgments
https://www.tomaquagmuseum.org/belongingsblog/2020/3/22/a-guide-for-land-acknowledgements-by-lorn-spears
Library guides and commentary
- Books for children recommended by the American Indian Library Association (AILA): https://ailanet.org/childrens-book-list/
- Information about tribal libraries from the American Indian Library Association: https://ailanet.org/what-is-a-tribal-library/
- https://ucsd.libguides.com/primarysources/nativeamericans
- https://cnu.libguides.com/psnativeamericans/removal
- Critical blog on American Indians in Children’s Literature (AICL)
Provided April 2026 by Hertha Sweet Wong in connection with her talk, “The Vitality of Indigenous Storytelling: Place, Time, Being/s”
Select Bibliography
Abel, Jordan. Un/Inhabited. Vancouver: Project Space Press and Talonbooks, 2014.
Endrezze, Anita. Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.
Hogan, Linda. The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.
King, Thomas. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Momaday, N. Scott. The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
__________. The Way to Rainy Mountain. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969.
Sarris, Greg. How a Mountain Was Made: Stories. Berkeley: Heyday Press, 2017.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Storyteller. New York: Seaver Books, 1981.
__________. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Smith, Paul Chaat. Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2009.
Wong, Hertha D. Sweet, Lauren Stuart Muller, and Jana Sequoya Magdaleno, eds. Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Books
The UUA Common Read for 2020:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2015) or
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Debbie Reese, Jean Mendoza: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (2017) (for a shorter read, see “California Slaughter: The State-Sanctioned Genocide of Native Americans“)
Deborah A. Miranda, Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2014)
Malcolm Margolin, The Ohlone Way (1st ed. 1978, latest 2014)
Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr., We Are the Land: A History of Native California (2021)
Podcasts
See https://www.powwows.com/my-favorite-native-american-podcasts/ for several recommendations.
New in 2022: Place and Purpose with Greg Sarris and Obi Kaufmann. “In this ground-breaking, 12-part, video-podcast, these two esteemed chroniclers of California’s ancient wonder, explore the deepest questions of hope, culture, beauty, justice, time, and ecology” from rural Sonoma County, California, home of the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians.
Discovered in January 2023: Seedcast, “a story centered podcast, produced by Nia Tero, where we dig up, nurture, and root stories of the Indigenous experience from around the world.”
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