The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, ... Native American Tribes. ... California was home to more than 1 million Native Americans before Spanish settlers arrived in 1769.

It returned the remains of some 1,100 people to the Bay Area-based Muwekma Ohlone Tribe in 1989 and 1990, said archaeologist Laura Jones, Stanford’s director of Heritage Services.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs ultimately determines the legal status and land rights of the country’s Native American tribes.

This tribe, native to Bay Area and estimated to be 10,000 years old, has about 600 surviving members. But the tribe, once thought to be extinct, is struggling for official recognition.

The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe has requested President Trump return the Presidio, a 1,500-acre national park in San Francisco, to their supervision, where the tribe would establish a reservation.

This led to the Ohlone Tribe losing its federal recognition, while the building housing the museum was later christened Kroeber Hall. After much upheaval, the university removed Kroeber’s name ...

Native American students at Stanford University in Stanford, ... put together a video statement acknowledging the institution's location on the the ancestral land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe ...