The Aramai settled at Calera Creek and used lands at Mori Point for over 3,000 years. Their villages, Timigtac and Pruristac, totaling 50 people, formed a distinct tribe among dozens of independent Ohlone tribes living from the Carquinez Strait south to Monterey Bay. They were among the first native people brought to the Spanish colonial Mission Dolores, where they joined diverse tribal people from the Bay region and became part of the Doloreños, one of several new communities of diverse native people that formed at the California missions. Utchús and Muchiáte, a Timigtac couple, are the ancestors of the only known surviving lineage from the original 1400 native people of the San Francisco Peninsula. Their daughter Xilaite, born a year before the Spanish Portola expedition reached San Francisco in 1769, married Jose Ramos, the mission blacksmith from New Spain, in a rare union of native and colonial individuals. One of the very few to survive the harmful effects of mission life, Xilaite lived long enough to see the birth of her granddaughter in 1811. By then nearly 95% of the Aramai had died, but her descendants endured, intermarrying with other tribes, with people of Mexican heritage, and with European Americans, and they continue to flourish today. Among them is Dr. Jonathan Cordero, Professor of Sociology at California Lutheran University, Xilaite's 9th generation grandson, who honors his ancestors by writing about their past in hopes of inspiring interest in their future.