The Muwekma Ohlone People & Geography's Changing Identity

For my final post this quarter, I decided to draw deeper focus upon the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, who aboriginal Native Americans of San Francisco and the surrounding territory, and the Bay's changing identity.  As Solnit only briefly mentioned the tribe in her essay "Tribes of San Francisco," I felt like we could miss a lot about San Francisco's history if we don't first look to its first recorded people.

Here is a link to tribe's history, which is well-documented and archived by the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe.  The tribe has had a difficult time being federally recognized by the US government as an official Native American tribe; they eventually had to file a lawsuit against the Interior Department/BIA over the estimated time the recognition process would have taken for the tribe (that time being 24 years.)  The link to a longer article from the tribe upon this recognition process is here, the historical timeline for the tribe is here, and their work on revitalizing the Muwekma Ohlone language, Chochenyo, is here.

I wanted to go into detail about the Muwekma Ohlone people a bit more because of Solnit's brief note about their history.  She notes, "The Ohlone were here first and are here still, often forgotten, but not gone" (Solnit 108).  I began to wonder how many times San Francisco will evolve and change in the future- what is SF's next identity?  Are we going to watch disaster, gentrification, and pollution run rampant, or will we see the city simply rebuild and reshape when bad things happen?  Asking if the Bay Area has become better or worse over the last several hundred years is too complex of a question, but I wonder if SF's next identity is something we can see and predict, like a baby in utero, with the tracking of medical help, diet, and the baby's vital signs as it comes to term predicting the baby's future.  Gone, but not forgotten- will we see ghosts when the coming generations claim the city? Will we be proud of what we've done, whether it be helpful or harmful, to SF?

Are we going to be watching the birth of Rosemary's baby, or will the city simply adapt if bad things happen?