California was home to more than 1 million Native Americans before Spanish settlers arrived in 1769. By the 1920s, less than 20,000 were alive. Almost one-quarter of Spanish missions in California ...

Justice for Muwekma, a new Stanford student activist group, is supporting the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe in its efforts to achieve recognition from the federal government. Here is an overview of the Tribe, ...

Ten people with the Muwekma Ohlone tribe, based in the Bay Area, were arrested in Washington D.C. this week after the tribe joined others traveling to the nation’s capital ahead of Indigenous People’s ...

New DNA evidence concerning the origins of San Francisco's Muwekma Ohlone tribe has been largely misrepresented by the press. These articles, and many others in local newspapers, fundamentally ...

An unrecognized Native American tribe from San Francisco ramped up its claim to the Presidio after President Donald Trump ordered an end to the federal trust overseeing the national park. The Muwekma ...

Federal recognition for the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, whose ancestral land in the Bay Area includes Stanford’s campus, has been a struggle for indigenous activists for 40 years. In a recent grassroots ...

Accusing Bay Area leaders of obstructing its efforts to gain federal recognition, the Muwekma Ohlone tribe is lashing out at San Jose officials for continuing to delay a decision on whether to support ...

Wilson Walker joined KPIX 5 in July 2007. After 10 years producing newscasts, Wilson became a Multimedia Journalist (MMJ) in 2012, meaning he shoots, writes and edits all of his own stories. More than ...

The East Bay is our home; the home of my community, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. In spite of all the hardships and challenges our people have faced (and continue to face) during colonization, no ...

Seventy-three-year-old Chief Tony Cerda is actively keeping alive the traditions of his Ohlone ancestors for future generations, because many people think the Ohlones don't exist anymore. Chairman ...

Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified individuals in a photo caption as Muwekma Ohlone tribal members. The individuals in the photograph are descendants ...