RESOURCES 

Collaborators

  • The Lisjan are made up of the seven nations that were directly enslaved at Mission San Jose in Fremont, CA and Mission Dolores in San Francisco, CA: Chochenyo (Ohlone), Karkin (Ohlone), Bay Miwok, Plains Miwok, Delta Yokut and Napian (Patwin). Our territory includes 5 Bay Area counties; Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Napa and San Joaquin, and we are directly tied to the “Indian Town” census of the 1920’s and the Verona Band.

    Learn more here.

  • Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people.

    Learn more about their work here.

  • Founded in 2010 by Oakland native, Anyka Howard, Betti Ono has been a community-based cultural hub for artists of color to thrive and build power in our Bay.

    Iweš-‘iweš kečkeyma : One Hundred Women was created through their Artist in Residence program by Inés Ixierda and more than 40 Indigenous Artists.

    Learn more about Betti Ono Foundation here.

  • Inés is an interdisciplinary visual artist and curator of Andean and Mestisx / Mixed descendency in Oakland, California, unceded Ohlone Territory.   Her art includes feminist graphics, subversive visual narratives,  installation, auto-ethonography and decolonial interventions uplifting voices and perspectives from below.

     Inés has worked as an artist and cultural worker for more than 20 years, organizing with creative collectives including Art as Resistance. Queer Magic Makers,  DIY MFA,  and CNTRL/SHFT.  Her work has shown at SOMArts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the National Queer Arts Festival, and the Oakland Museum of California.  She is the creative director at Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and a member of Real Time and Space.   

    Learn more about her work here.

On Indigenous Land

  • Native Land is a site to help map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages.

    Learn more about the land you are on at native-land.ca/

  • This collection of maps and information was created in consultancy with Ohlone people by East Bay Regional Parks. They include villages, language groups, cultural and historical information.

    Find the resources here.

  • A summary of Bay Area Indigenous history, people and projects from the Bay Area Equity Atlas.

    Learn more here.

Curriculum Resources

  • How did Native people resist and persist in the face of extreme adversity?

    Lesson Plan about the Mission period uplifting Indigenous resilience from the National Museum of the American Indian Museum here.

  • California Missions: How Did Native Americans Resist?

    Find the lesson plan from DBQ Project Here.

  • When a fourth grader reaches out to a real Native Tribe for a real Native perspective on the Missions, the request was given to Professor Deborah A. Miranda (Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen Nation) who wrote this response.

    Read “Dear Sierra; An Open Letter to a fourth grader,” here.

Related Readings

  • A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1769-1810 by Randall Milliken.

  • A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions by Elias Castillo

    Tracing the history of Spanish colonization in California from its origins in Spain's 18th century economic crisis to the legacy of racism and brutality that continues today, "A Cross of Thorns" shares a dark piece of California’s history

  • Part tribal history, part lyric from one of the leading American Indian writers of today. A wise and powerful exploration of California's Missions—from a Native perspective. By Deborah A. Miranda.

    Find it here.