The fruits mature in winter, making them very unusual and highly prized within the native communities who ate the berries.

The Native American tribe the Muwekma Ohlone were forced to hide on Spanish rancherias, landless, their numbers dwindling to the point that scholars in the 1920s claimed they were extinct.

Though the Ohlone and their neighbors continued certain practices in secret–including those surrounding language, food, and ceremony–the missions also took a terrible physical toll on Native ...

The Mission District was originally home to the Ohlone Indians, nomadic hunters and gatherers. They roamed the lush marshlands and verdant hills of the Bay Area for over 2,000 years, living in harmony ...

Ohlone religion revolved around elaborate ritual dances with ... Sadly, historical accounts reveal harsh punishments (by modern standards) of withholding food, corporal punishments, and imprisonment ...