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Letting the Bay Back In

Under a new state law, every city and county on San Francisco Bay must have a plan for rising water by 2034. Along the South Bay, levees are being opened and former salt ponds are turning back into tidal marsh. We look at the deadline, the science, and the older shoreline of the Muwekma Ohlone homeland underneath it all.

Muwekma Ohlone 10/18/26 Muwekma Ohlone 10/18/26

A Year of Being Seen

In twelve months, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe raised its flag at San José City Hall, lit its first cultural burn in nearly 150 years, won state funding to buy about 154 acres of its homeland, and testified at the Capitol. Here is the year, month by month.

Muwekma Ohlone 10/12/26 Muwekma Ohlone 10/12/26

Gathering Together at Dawn

Before sunrise on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Muwekma dancers and singers gathered in front of the Mission Church at Santa Clara University. The day, ÓTTÓY RÓOTE HUŠÍŠTAK, opened the mission’s 250th-anniversary year by starting with the time before the mission.

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One Hundred Fifty Acres

For generations, the first people of the Bay Area held no land of their own in their homeland. In August 2026, that changed. The Tribe announced that about 150 acres of grassland in the hills above East San José had come home.