CALIFORNIA’S LOST TRIBE

hough largely forgotten today, Ohlone tribal history dates back millennia. The Ohlones believed they were descendants of Coyote, who with Eagle and Hummingbird formed a trinity of mythological beings who dwelled together atop a prominent peak (present-day Mount Diablo) when the world was covered with water. The Ohlones occupied the fertile stretch of northern California between present-day San Francisco and Monterey and lands farther east. Though in the 20th century the U.S. government declared them “extinct,”