the Ohlone people are not gone, though the federal government refuses to acknowledge that. The Muwékma Ohlone Tribe asserts an aboriginal claim to the South Bay, including Palo Alto. In 1925, the UC Berkeley ethnologist Alfred Kroeber mistakenly listed the Verona Band of Alameda County, the government’s name for the group, as extinct, a classification the feds adopted, reversing its 1906 recognition of the Ohlone. The government claimed that, in those 20 years, the tribe disintegrated. This did not happen, but for nearly a century now government authorities have stuck by the same erroneous line.

— Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris