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Storm safety tips, undergrounding | BUSD studying reparations, Berkeley High + Cal's relationship since 1800s | Historic Asian American bookshop closing

Ohlone Indians

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A top UC Berkeley professor taught with remains that may include dozens of Native Americans

by Mary Hudetz and Graham Lee Brewer | ProPublica, NBC News March 07, 2023, 11:02 a.m.March 7, 2023

Despite decades of Indigenous activism and resistance, UC Berkeley has failed to return the remains of thousands of Native Americans to tribes. The university is still discovering more human remains.

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Berkeley City Council to begin all meetings with a land acknowledgment

Avatar photo by Ally Markovich Oct. 20, 2022, 4:39 p.m.October 22, 2022

Intended as a “starting point” for reparative work with local Indigenous people, a land acknowledgment will be displayed at every meeting and read aloud monthly.

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‘This land is coming back to us’: Berkeley community garden gifted to Ohlone land trust

Avatar photo by Kate Darby Rauch April 20, 2022, 10:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

An anonymous donor paid $435,000 to save part of the Ashby Community Garden in Southwest Berkeley and has given it to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.

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Spenger’s development can proceed on site of Ohlone shellmound, court rules

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel July 29, 2021, 10:28 a.m.August 4, 2022

The decision by the California Supreme Court means a 260-unit complex with 130 units of affordable housing can proceed on the contested Ohlone land.

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City appeals decision to allow 260-unit complex at 1900 Fourth St.

Avatar photo by Supriya Yelimeli June 04, 2021, 2:55 p.m.August 4, 2022

An appellate court said Berkeley should automatically approve a project on the Shellmound landmark site, but the city is pushing back.

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Court rules a 260-unit apartment complex can go up at 1900 Fourth St., a site the Ohlone consider sacred

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel April 21, 2021, 4:52 p.m.October 4, 2022

The court ruling, which Berkeley may appeal, is the latest development in a long-running fight about the property.

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‘This feels cruel, that our sacred site is now imprisoned.’ Ohlones protest new fence around ancestral land

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel March 22, 2021, 3:58 p.m.August 4, 2022

The owners of 1900 Fourth St. want to build housing and retail on the old Spenger’s parking lot, which sits in the middle of Berkeley’s shellmound district.

protest in berkeley to save the shellmound
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West Berkeley Shellmound is now considered one of the U.S.’s 11 most endangered historic places

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel Sept. 25, 2020, 11:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

Native Americans and their supporters hope the designation will help them stop a planned 260-unit development at 1900 Fourth St., a lot that is part of the West Berkeley Shellmound.

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Judge rules for Berkeley in developer’s lawsuit over Spenger’s parking lot

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Oct. 22, 2019, 10:49 p.m.October 4, 2022

The judge said the city could deny Ruegg & Ellsworth’s SB35 application because the site is landmarked, even though there are no significant structures on the property and little shellmound evidence has been found.

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Judge to rule on whether Berkeley illegally nixed a housing complex on Spenger’s parking lot

Avatar photo by Natalie Orenstein Sept. 17, 2019, 8:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

The owners of 1900 Fourth St. sued Berkeley over the city’s denial of their SB35 housing application. The law allows almost automatic approval of complexes where 50% of the units are “affordable.”

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Berkeley rejects SB35 application for Spenger’s lot development, again

Avatar photo by Natalie Orenstein Sept. 05, 2018, 11:27 a.m.August 4, 2022

The city was not swayed by the developers’ appeal for a 260-unit complex with 130 affordable apartments.

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Developers drop controversial Fourth Street project, hand it over to owners

Avatar photo by Natalie Orenstein Sept. 04, 2018, 2:43 p.m.August 4, 2022

The application for a housing complex on the Spenger’s parking lot — which has faced opposition from Native American activists — is now in the property owners’ hands.

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