Muwekma Ohlone tribe starts 'Trail of Truth' protest across US in fight for federal recognition KGO Monday, August 5, 2024 ...

If you tried to get across the Golden Gate Bridge Sunday afternoon, you may have seen the beginning of what the Muwekma Ohlone are calling the "Trail of Truth." Tribal Chairwoman Charlene Nijmeh ...

The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe took their months-long "Trail of Truth," to the Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024 to push elected leaders from California to Washington D.C. for federal recognition.

This tribe, native to Bay Area and estimated to be 10,000 years old, has about 600 surviving members. But the tribe, once thought to be extinct, is struggling for official recognition.

The finding corroborates the tribe's long-fought claim for legitimacy and contradicts the idea that the Ohlone migrated to the area between 500 C.E. and 1,000 C.E., a notion based on artifact and ...

In the USA Today article, journalist Celina Tebor writes that A.L. Kroeber, in his monumental 1925 Handbook of the Indians of California, was mistaken to conclude that the Muwekma Ohlone were extinct.

The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, declared “extinct for all practical purposes" in 1925, has new DNA research to bolster its fight for federal recognition.

ONEIDA, Wis. (WBAY) - Members of two Native American tribes came together on Friday to support a fight for federal recognition. The Oneida Nation welcomed the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe from California ...

Joey Iyolopixtli Torres, left, and Charlene Nijmeh, Chairwoman of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, speak during a rally in front of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif ...

(CN) — Researchers found that modern-day members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe located in and around the San Francisco Bay Area can trace their roots in the region back more than 2,000 years. By ...

Muwekma Ohlone Tribe Chair Charlene Nijmeh, left, and Vice Chair Monica Arellano, right. The Muwekma’s tribal membership hovered around 600 in 2003 — the most recent count — with many more ...

Without formal status as a federally recognized tribe, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and other non-federally recognized tribes have three avenues to gain federal recognition: by carrying out the ...