Resolution 12381CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 12381
SUPPORTING THE AMAH-MUTSUN OHLONE TRIBE
(AMAH TRIBAL BAND)
AND OTHER CALIFORNIA TRIBES, BANDS, AND NATIONS
IN THEIR EFFORT TO OBTAIN FORMAL RECOGNITION
AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND BY THE
UNITED STATES CONGRESS
WHEREAS, the Amah-Mutsun Tribe of Ohlone/Costanoan
Indians of the Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, Alameda and Santa
Cruz Counties area constitute the surviving documented aboriginal
Native American lineages of this region; and
WHEREAS, the distribution of the Amah-Mutsun Ohlone
speaking groups occupied portions of Ohlone/Costanoan Territory;
and
0 WHEREAS, the some of the ancestors of the Amah-Mutsun
HC Ohlone tribal groups were removed from their aboriginal lands and
ca) brought into Mission San Jose; and
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WHEREAS, as a result of the impact upon the lives and
lifeways of the Amah-Mutsun Ohlone people by expanding Hispanic
C) 0 Empire, the Missions and later American conquest, it was once
pronounced by members of the dominant society that these aboriginal
people were extinct; and
WHEREAS, the Amah-Mutsun Ohlone tribe has refused to
accept this sentence of extinction, and has demonstrated their
cultural heritage, Native American identity and biological
continuity by maintaining a rich oral tradition, supported their
historical research documenting themselves as the aboriginal
inhabitants of the Monterey Bay and interior areas, through San
Juan Bautista, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Monterey, and Alameda
mission records, the enthnographic field work of J.P. Harrington
(1922-1939 Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian) and Bureau of
Indian Affairs (e.g. the 1928 California Jurisdictional Act
enrollment, and other documents); and
WHEREAS, the Alameda City Council strongly support and
recognize the Amah-Mutsun Ohlone Indian Tribe, and also supports
the efforts of all other Native California aboriginal tribal groups
as well as other Native American aboriginal groups, especially in
the year of Indigenous People and following the Year of the
Quincentennial Celebration; to be formally recognized and
acknowledged by the United States of America;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Alameda City
Council does hereby acknowledge, commend and fully support the
Amah-Mutsun Ohlone Tribe (Amah Tribal Band) and other California
tribes, bands, and nations in their effort to obtain formal
recognition at the Federal level and by the United States Congress.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution
was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the
City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the 20th day of
April , 1993, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Appezzato, Arnerich, Lucas, Roth
and President Withrow - 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None,
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this 21st day of April , 1993.
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Diane B. Felsch, City Clerk
City of Alameda