Lee M. Panich

This proposal supports the completion of a ten-stop Thámien Ohlone Augmented Reality Tour for mobile phones that engages the public with Native Californian history, culture, and persistence at the site of Mission Santa Clara and Santa Clara University from precontact times through colonization and projecting into the future. Co-created with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe in recognition of the tribe’s rhetorical sovereignty, or inherent right to tell their own stories on their own terms, this place-based project seeks to highlight Native experiences of colonization and cultural persistence by virtually emplacing Indigenous narratives, languages, and material culture on the modern landscape, creating opportunities for cultural knowledge sharing within and for the tribal community in the process.