Muwekma Ohlone Tribe petitions Trump administration for Presidio land 03:20 With the uncertainty of the Presidio Trust's future in San Francisco, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of San Francisco Bay has ...

The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area is making a formal request to assume stewardship of the federally-run ...

Gloria Gomez, Muwekma Ohlone Tribe As the missions closed in the 1830s and 1840s ... With the United States’ annexation of California in the 1840s, Anglo settlers perpetrated a genocide against Native ...

For decades, thousands of Native American ancestral remains have been stored away in museums and academic institutions across California, despite a federal law requiring their return to descendants.

They have lived in the Bay Area for thousands of years, were enslaved by the Spanish conquerors and bounty hunted by Americans. The Native American tribe the Muwekma Ohlone were forced to hide on ...

During the mission era, California Indian lands were supposed to be held in trust by the Franciscans ... Like many other Bay Area Ohlone groups today, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe traces their ancestry to ...

The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe formally requested the president ... “This is an opportunity for President Trump to do what the state of California has failed to do,” Charlene Nijmeh, chair of ...

Chairwoman Charlene Nijmeh said deciding to re-petition is not so simple. Charlene Nijmeh, chair of the Muwekma Ohlone tribe in the Bay Area, stands for a portrait next to Strawberry Creek in Berkeley ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A local tribe has launched a petition formally requesting that President Donald Trump return the Presidio back to indigenous people. The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe posted the ...