marshall mckay: this has been home to the yocha dehe wintun nation for approximately 15,000 years. we know this through research and findings of sacred sites around the area. this valley was a-bustle with actity during the spanish occupation. this was part of a spanish land holding of about 50,000 acres at one time. and that brought along a great difficulty of times because they took us away from this land and moved us to the missions and any other holdings that they had as laborers. and after that, when the u.s. calvary came in to protect the gold rush and people in san francisco, they used this valley as a transit route to lake county. so there was a lot of agitated movement. there was a disposition we couldn't stay here anymore. so life was really modified greatly when we had people coming in that weren't wintun people. i alys look at the colonization aspect and the oppreson as a springboard. it gives me as a native american the opportunity to overcome that oppression and to say i can do something that wasn't allowed 200 years ago. and i can utilize that activity in order to ben