We are very honored to announce our collaboration with the @muwekma_ohlone_tribe for our 1st Annual Cali Native Night at Our 24th Annual Mexica New Year. This is the 1st time in over 100 years that their tribe has danced in ceremony. Special thanks to other local neighboring tribes who will also be present with their traditional songs and dance. See flyer for more details. This will take place Friday evening, 5-9 pm at @emmaprusch_farmpark. 🔥🥁🐚🦅.

The Muwekma Ohlone People have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area over ten millennia, well before the arrival of the Spanish. The present-day Muwekma Ohlone Tribe is comprised of all known surviving Native American lineages aboriginal to the San Francisco Bay region who trace their ancestry through the Missions San Jose, Santa Clara, and San Francisco, and the historic federally recognized Verona Band of Alameda County.

In 1905, Special California Indian Agent Charles E. Kelsey identified a distinct community of Native Americans living in Niles and near the Verona Railroad Station in Alameda County.

Kelsey named that tribal community “The Verona Band” and that tribe became Federally Acknowledged as the Verona Band of Alameda County by the U.S. Government and the Bureau of Indian Affairs through the Congressional California Indian Landless Appropriation Acts beginning in 1906, after the discovery of the 18 unratified treaties of California, as well as other federal actions.

In 1989, the Muwekma Tribal Council began to petition the US Government for Federal Acknowledgment and on May 24, 1996 the BIA made a formal determination that the enrolled 550 members of the Tribe were the legal successors of the previously Federally Recognized Verona Band of Alameda County. Continuously working on its status clarification, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe is still in process of securing its reaffirmation as a Federally Recognized Tribe by the BIA.

For more information about the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe you can visit their website at www.muwekma.org