Palo Alto Online: The Muwekma Ohlone have been here for more than 2,000 years. The government says they're not a tribe.

They have lived in the Bay Area for thousands of years, were enslaved by the Spanish conquerors and bounty hunted by Americans. 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. View the full story at this link.