April 2011
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How The World Was Created According To Ohlone
Another story I want to document so I will never forget. Passed down to me from my hero, Andy Galvan, who is teaching me much about our shared heritage.
A long, long time ago in a place far, far away our world was just a big spinning ball that was full of water, and Grandfather wanted to create life. However, Grandfather lived far away, near the stars.
He thought he could fly to our world and...
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As I’m picking up garbage in front of this place , loads of cars are passing by me gawking. If they only knew my connection to this place. Natives often live in two worlds, traditional and modern. Most people don’t understand this.
Today I am cleaning our cemetary again, like how my grandfather did in the same spot many years ago. So many people throw their garbage right in front of it. I’m picking it up so this place looks clean. I don’t get some people.
“I can’t be Indian one day and something else the next day. See our eyes,...”
– Madeline Medina
will someone please tell me how to comment on other people’s postings? for all those who reblogged me, thank you. i wish i could comment on other’s postings, but i’m new to tumblr and don’t know how! :(
@kahsennanoron, i agree with you that there are definitely a lot of assumptions are made on all sides in the native community. learning the truth about each other, whether...
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my cousin and i walked into a bead store in san francisco recently to have some old family beads strung into a few necklaces. the woman who worked behind the counter was very polite, but it made me even more aware of the misconceptions so many people have about ohlone.
jeweler: how can i help you?
my cousin: we wanted to have these beads strung into a few necklaces…
jeweler: these beads...
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“Just because we hold on to our past does not mean we cannot have a future.”
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You work at a Mission?!
Being Ohlone, I often get looked at as if I’m crazy when I tell people I work at a California Mission.
How can you work in a space that destroyed your native, ancestral culture?!
Didn’t your ancestors struggle there?
I get these questions (and more) working at Mission Dolores. How do I answer them?
For me, working at Mission Dolores is empowering.
I am the assistant curator at...
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Brief intro in my own words of what I want to...
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Racism Stemming From The Glen Cove/Sogorea Te...
Sogorea Te, later known as Glen Cove is an Ohlone Indian village site in Vallejo, California that has been occupied for 3,500 years. It has an immense amount of human burials, a fairly intact shellmound, and I’m sure countless artifacts and evidence of Ohlone civilization from the old times. The City of Vallejo wants to put in restrooms and a parking lot on top of this site, which would...
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The story keeps going...
I have an 8 year old brother and he wants to know about his roots. Yesterday, I was playing a CD for him that Linda Yamane, a strong Ohlone storyteller created that puts Rumsen Ohlone words into a song… he listened to it and smiled big. After hearing it for a few minutes he ran into the family room to my parents and said “MISHISH TUUX, MOMMY AND DADDY!!! THAT MEANS HELLO HOW OUR...
How Turtle Teaches The Ohlone
This story was passed down to me, and I am remembering a lot right now of it, so I should document. It’s a story of how Turtle’s actions teach the Ohlone some virtues of how to be good people.
Turtle teaches Ohlone how to be good people because through Turtle’s life and actions he shows virtue.
If Turtle comes to a roadblock, he doesn’t go around it. Instead Turtle ...
A little about me
SO, I suppose since I’m making a blog telling my story… I should probably introduce myself. My name is Vince, I’m 24, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and studying cultural anthropology and archaeology. I am a descendant of Ohlone and Bay Miwok Indians who passed through Mission Dolores (in San Francisco), and Mission San José (in Fremont). I work at Mission Dolores as the...
“I am dancing. On the edge of the world I am dancing”
– fragment of an Ohlone song, nothing else is known… still beautiful to me though
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This should be interesting....
I am making this to document life through my eyes of being an Ohlone Indian in the 21st century. My goal is to hopefully to blast some misconceptions, express my personal struggles, to use this as medium for telling my story in my own words, to express the hardships, the struggles, the pride, the confusion, and the joy of being part of something so old, so misunderstood, and so beautiful. As I...
