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
- EBRPD color brochure with maps
- 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
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
THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF CALIFORNIA
- 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
- Information about tribal libraries, from the American Indian Library Association (AILA): https://ailanet.org/what-is-a-tribal-library/
- From Arizona State University: includes COVID-19 resources for indigenous peoples: https://libguides.asu.edu/covid19indigenouspeoplesresources
- https://ucsd.libguides.com/primarysources/nativeamericans
- https://cnu.libguides.com/psnativeamericans/removal
- Critical blog on American Indians in Children’s Literature (AICL)
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.”