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Cafe Ohlone Set To Reopen in June in Berkeley

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Next month, Berkeley’s Cafe Ohlone will reopen in a new space in the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. The restaurant, which serves traditional dishes of the Bay Area’s original inhabitants, closed during the pandemic. Cafe Ohlone’s owners say they hope to repair the fraught relationship the Ohlone people have with the Hearst Museum, which contains a large collection of Ohlone artifacts. We’ll talk about the next iteration of Cafe Ohlone and their goal of affirming Ohlone culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Next month, Berkeley's Cafe Alone will reopen a new space in the Hearst Museum of Anthropology

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at the University of California, Berkeley. As we heard in the last segment, U.C. Berkeley anthropologist Alfred Krober played a key role

1:15.5

in the loss of the tribe's federal recognition, and the Hearst Museum still contains a large

1:20.3

collection of Alone artifacts which have not been returned to the tribe.

1:23.8

We're joined this morning by one of Cafe Alonis's proprietors to talk about his hopes for repairing the fraught relationship the

1:30.3

Eloni people have with these institutions, while affirming and teaching about the indigenous culture of the Bay.

1:36.3

Welcome Vincent Medina, East Bay Alone cultural leader and co-founder of Café Ilone.

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Thank you very much. Horche Tuhuji. Hello to you all.

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Kanakrakats, Vincent Medina, and I'm the co-founder of Cafe Aloni and our organization,

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community organization, Makamha, which means our food in Chochenio, the indigenous language to the East Bay.

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Thank you so much for joining us, Vincent, and for introducing us this beautiful language.

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Of course, this is one of our biweekly segments with Luke's eye about Bay Area food culture.

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Luke's our KQED food editor, and welcome to you too, Luke.

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