The Native American tribe the Muwekma Ohlone were forced to hide on Spanish rancherias, landless, their numbers dwindling to the point that scholars in the 1920s claimed they were extinct.

Home College of Arts and Sciences Community Heritage Lab Ohlone Heritage Hub What is the role of Mission Santa Clara in Ohlone history? Santa Clara University is one of the few institutions of higher ...

One such community, called Thamien, was located where the SCU campus now stands. Today, descendants call themselves “Ohlone”. The Ohlone lifestyle can be described as “hunter-gatherer”. Though they ...

Using archived ethnographic research, Linda Yamane is bringing back the language of the Ohlone, a Northern California tribe. Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag ...

The Ohlone tiger beetle is a colorful, predatory, and endangered insect endemic to Santa Cruz County, California. Adult tiger beetles are ferocious and agile predators that seize their small prey with ...

The San Jose branch of the NAACP and the Muwekma Ohlone tribe want Santa Clara County to remove a 63-year-old mural in the Palo Alto Courthouse that they say denigrates Native Americans.

Vincent Medina is an member of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, where he also serves as a Councilman representing his family’s lineage. Vincent and Louis Trevino are co-founders of mak-‘amham ...