The Anza Expedition traveled well-worn trails made by people from local Ohlone tribes, including the Alson, Tuibun, and Yrgin in this region. In Chocheño, the local Ohlone dialect, “Íyyanu ja sultáawukma mak ínnutka” means “There come the white people on our trails.” Ohlone sacred narratives tell that the world and people were created here at the dawn of time, some 12,900 to 13,500 years ago according to archaeologists. Ohlone peoples had vast knowledge of the local landscape and managed it in ways that ensured a greater abundance of plants and animals than would have occurred otherwise. Today’s Ohlones maintain cultural communities, work to protect ancient sacred village and burial sites, and preserve traditional knowledge, beliefs, values, arts, skills, languages, foods, and spiritual traditions, carrying them into the future in both new and old ways. This is the homeland of the Tuibun, an Ohlone-speaking tribe.