LibraryAware Native American Resources and Reads 2021

Local Resources

Sogorea Te

Land Trust

"An urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people."

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Cafe Ohlone

"An Ohlone cultural institution empowering our community with tradition—and we teach the public, through taste, of our unbroken roots."

Intertribal Friendship House

"To promote native cultural traditions, connection, wellness and inter-generational healing."

Cultural Conservancy

"Our mission is to protect and restore Indigenous cultures, empowering them in the direct application of traditional knowledge and practices on their ancestral lands."

Traditional Foodways of

Native America

"Based on extensive oral history interviews with indigenous food practitioners, this project highlights the critically important work being done by Native leaders today."

Red Road to DC

Follow the Totem Pole journey for the protection of sacred places from Washington to Washington DC. Join the Red Road in the San Leandro Marina, Thursday, 6/3 from 3:00-7:00.

Amah Mutsun

Land Trust
Restoring indigenous knowledge and practices to Popeloutchom - Amah Mutsun ancestral lands.

Sacred Land Film Project

Inspiring stories of indigenous' peoples' resistance to the destruction of their sacred sites and cultures. Stories include the sacred shellmounds in West Berkeley and Mount Shasta.

Shellmound: Ohlone Heritage Site and Sacred Grounds

Lisjan Ohlone leader Corrina Gould has been protecting one of her people's sacred places, the West Berkeley Shellmount and Village Site, from development. The site was recognized in September 2020 as one of the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in America by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Muwekma Ohlone Tribe
The official website of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area

East Bay Regional Park District Ohlone Curriculum
3rd grade curriculum about local tribal peoples past to present by District Cultural Services Coordinator Beverly R. Ortiz. Ohlone Curriculum with Bay Miwok Content and Introduction to Delta Yokuts