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Whose land are you on?

Who named the places we live in, work in, and visit everyday?

Which Indigenous Languages are spoken here?

California Native Americans speak more than 350 different languages and dialects.

In the East Bay, the primary Ohlone language is “Chochenyo”.

Where is “Lisjan” from?

San Lorenzo Creek has been called “Lisjan Creek”

San Leandro Creek has been called “Lisjan Creek”

Lisjan has been called a “Traditional Village Site”, in Oakland.

In 1921, J.P. Harrington reported on “Indian Towns” in several locations, 100 years after the Mission System was abandoned.

“Lisjan” does not appear.

“Lisjan” is not an Ohlone word.

“Lisjan” is the Nisenan name for Pleasanton, California.

Nisenan is about 100 miles away from Pleasanton

In 2009, Randall Milliken used Mission Rolls, and other anthropological studies and papers, to create a map of San Fancisco Bay Area Tribal Groups.

“Lisjan” does not appear.

“Lisjan” has been called a group of Ohlone people with direct ties to the Descendants
of Native Americans Who Were Enslaved In The California Missions.

Lisjan “does not appear in any Spanish mission period records.”

Why would any organization that insists on using the correct name and history for everything else…

…Be okay with using the wrong name and history for themselves?

Save shellmounds. Not parking lots.

AlamedaNativeHistoryProject