# Ohlone **Domain:** Indigenous History / Ecology / Bay Area **Doc Type:** Canonical Peoples Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Ohlone** is a collective modern term for multiple Indigenous peoples whose ancestral territories extend through the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions. It should not be treated as a single historically uniform tribe or as a vanished population. Contemporary communities, including the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and other Ohlone peoples, continue cultural, political and land relationships. ## Nexus Context [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] identifies Indigenous ecological knowledge and land management as the region's earlier information infrastructure. That claim requires care: fire stewardship, seasonal harvesting and place knowledge were living cultural systems, not merely precursors waiting to become technology. The continuity relevance is direct. Institutional histories that begin with orchards, Stanford or semiconductors erase prior custodianship and convert living peoples into background. A valid regional knowledge graph must preserve named communities, colonial disruption, surviving claims and the difference between documentation about a people and authority to speak for them. ## Sources / Provenance - Stanford Community Engagement, “The Ohlone”: https://community.stanford.edu/explore-campus/annotative-signs/ohlone - Muwekma Ohlone Tribe: https://www.muwekma.org/ ## See Also [[wiki/Indigenous Knowledge Systems|Indigenous Knowledge Systems]], [[wiki/Environmental Memory|Environmental Memory]], [[wiki/Provenance|Provenance]], [[wiki/Stanford University|Stanford University]]