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Happy Indigenous People's Day!
Today, we celebrate and honor the rich and diverse cultures, traditions, histories, contributions, and resilience of Indigenous peoples in North America and around the world. It is a day of recognition and understanding of the challenges they have faced and continue to face, as well as a time to reflect on the importance of acknowledging their past and present contributions to society. Find out more about the Bay Area's Ohlone people and check out a special Diverse Reads recommendation called PowWow Day, found in the Lower School library.
The Bay Area was originally inhabited by various Indigenous tribes and nations. The Ohlone people are often the most closely associated with the East Bay, including Berkeley. They were a diverse group of Indigenous peoples who inhabited the coastal and inland areas of what is now the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Ohlone are the predominant Indigenous group of the Bay Area, including the Chochenyo, the Karkin, the Ramaytush, the Yokuts, and the Muwekma tribe. Many Ohlone descendants, including members of the Ohlone Chumash Tribe and Muwekma Ohlone Tribe live in the San Francisco Bay area today and are actively involved in preserving and promoting their native languages, cultures and traditions and elevating tribal communities through education and economic development resources.
We recognize that Ecole Bilingue sits on ancestral and unceded Muwekma Ohlone territory. We would like to acknowledge the Muwekma Ohlone community, their elders both past and present, as well as future generations. Ecole Bilingue also acknowledges that we continue to benefit from this occupied land. This land continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. We recognize that the Ohlone People are vital members of the Berkeley community.
Check out these websites to learn more about the Muwekma (http://www.muwekma.org/) and Chumash (https://ohlonetribe.org/) tribes.
Stop by the Lower School library and check out the uplifting, contemporary Native American story Powwow Day by Traci Sorell.
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