The city of Berkeley has agreed to return the Ohlone Shellmound Village site to an indigenous trust.
City councilmembers on Tuesday announced a settlement to purchase the site, which is a parking lot now, and hand it over to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, The 2.2 acre site, at the mouth of Strawberry Creek, was the first human settlement on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. It dates back 5,700 years.
"We're getting our land that belongs to us and I tell everybody that I see every day that this land is our land," said one woman who a press conference about the deal. "We're still here. We never left. My family's never left Alameda County ever since time began. And we're still here."A developer accepted $27 million for the property. The trust put up $25.5 million and the city of Berkeley contributed $1.5 million.
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