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Muwekma Ohlone 

±á´Ç°ùÅ¡±ð&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Túuxi (hor-sh-eh troo-hee). This means like good day, hello and or welcome in the Chochenyo Ohlone Language. 

Office of Equity staff members humbly work in unceded Ohlone territory, here in De Anza College also known as the South Bay and or Silicon Valley.  We live among the original caretakers and stewards, The ²Ñ³Ü·Éé°ì³¾²¹ Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area. We recognize °®¶¹´«Ã½ College sits on the crux of Raymatush and Tamien tribal lands. For more information about the ²Ñ³Ü·Éé°ì³¾²¹ (muh-wek-mah), please visit their . 

Our vision is to continue a beautiful legacy of ancestral wisdom and cultural keeping in relationship to the land with much love and respect. We understand we do this work with the contradiction that we are in occupied territory after the massacre and genocide of Ohlone peoples, with western definitions of political borders.  Thus with more conviction, we are determined to educate ourselves, as staff, faculty, students and as community members to decolonize and deconstruct, to make room for ongoing unschooling, to learn cultural humility, giving life to social justice inside and outside the classroom centering first nation peoples and through relationship building.  In this way, we stay true to an indigenous way of life, to the core value that involves "To All My Relations." 

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Foothill College  with a blessing from the Muwekma Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Consider learning from this great online tool "."  Here is a map regarding Ohlone tribal regions , thanks to UC Berkeley's Office of .