Land Acknowledgement

Muwekma Ohlone 

Horše Túuxi (hor-sh-eh troo-hee). This means like good day, hello and or welcome in the Chochenyo Ohlone Language. 

Office of Equity staff members humbly work in unceded Ohlone territory, here in De Anza College also known as the South Bay and or Silicon Valley.  We live among the original caretakers and stewards, The Muwékma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area. We recognize De Anza College sits on the crux of Raymatush and Tamien tribal lands. For more information about the Muwékma (muh-wek-mah), please visit their website. 

Our vision is to continue a beautiful legacy of ancestral wisdom and cultural keeping in relationship to the land with much love and respect. We understand we do this work with the contradiction that we are in occupied territory after the massacre and genocide of Ohlone peoples, with western definitions of political borders.  Thus with more conviction, we are determined to educate ourselves, as staff, faculty, students and as community members to decolonize and deconstruct, to make room for ongoing unschooling, to learn cultural humility, giving life to social justice inside and outside the classroom centering first nation peoples and through relationship building.  In this way, we stay true to an indigenous way of life, to the core value that involves "To All My Relations." 

Find Out What Native Land you are In

Or You can see this site Whose Land - Welcome!

>>> Muwékma Ohlone Tribe Call to Action

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Trail of Truth, Check out their complete Social Media options, as well as YouTube videos, 

Partnering Up For a Brighter Future w/POST 

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Muwékma Foundation

Help Restore Federal Recognition to Muwékma

Act

Sign the petition urging California's legislators to pass the Muwékma Ohlone Tribe resolution SJR 13 

Sign the Muwekma Letter to RESTORE FEDERAL RECOGNITION Back to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Region

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What is a Land Acknowledgement?: A land acknowledgement is a formal statement that recognizes and respects the Indigenous peoples as traditional stewards of this land, the enduring relationship that exists between Indigenous peoples and their traditional lands. This is an act of conciliation that makes a statement recognizing the traditional land of the Indigenous people who have called and still call the land home before and after the arrival of settlers. It is critical that a land acknowledgement does not merely frame the presence of Indigenous people in their ancestral territory in the past tense. A land acknowledgement must recognize their continued presence and relationship to their ancestral lands since time immemorial.

Please lean on this toolkit for guidance on tribal consultation and important things to know when developing a statement.

Take a NAIS Class in the Intercultural Studies Division - Schedule of Classes (Native American and Indigenous Studies) 

Build with Native American and Indigenous Studies Instructor -Meghan Kensler

Foothill College has created a Land Acknowledgement with the blessing from the Muwekma Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Other regional tribal groups: Raymatush, Esselen, Amah Mutsun, Rumsen,

Other nations: Tamien

Donate to or Volunteer with the following trust funds and organizations 

Sogorea Te' Land Trust

Amah Mutsun Land Trust

Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley

Consider learning from this great online tool "Visualizing Indigenous Persistence during Spanish Colonization of the San Francisco Bay Area."  Here is a map regarding Ohlone tribal regions , thanks to UC Berkeley's Office of Native American Student Development.