The San Francisco Peninsula and areas along the east side of San Francisco Bay and south to Monterey lie in the aboriginal lands of the Ohlone (also called Costanoans). Coastal lands north of the Golden Gate in Marin County and Southern Sonoma County are the aboriginal lands of the Coast Miwok.
Commonly known as the Bay Area, the San Francisco Bay Area encompasses the major cities and metropolitan areas of San Francisco Oakland, and San Jose and includes nine counties, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma.
Oakland is in the ancestral territory of The Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation (Lisjan Nation), one of the Bay Area tribes that includes descendants of Ohlone people that were taken into Mission Dolores and Mission San Jose. “This collaboration is giving visibility to the first people of the Bay Area.
Oakland Language 61.23% of Oakland residents speak only English, while 38.77% speak other languages. The non-English language spoken by the largest group is Spanish, which is spoken by 21.03% of the population.
Xučyun (Huichin) is the home territory that Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people, it extends from what we know today as the Berkeley hills to the Bay Shore, from West Oakland to El Cerrito.
The Ohlone are the predominant Indigenous group of the Bay Area, including the Chochenyo and the Karkin in East Bay, the Ramaytush in San Francisco, the Yokuts in South Bay and Central Valley, and the Muwekma tribe throughout the region.