Presidio Terrace in San Francisco City and County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
San Francisco's First People
Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, August 23, 2020
1. San Francisco's First People Marker
Inscription.
San Francisco's First People. . Indian people have long held close relationships with the plants. Plants have provided food, shelter, clothing, baskets, cordage, games, musical instruments, hunting and other tools, medicines - the list could go on. Plants were, and still are, thanked with offerings and sung to. , Linda Yamane, Rumsien Ohlone
The tule reeds in front of you were life sustaining material for the Yelamu, a community of the Ohlone people who were the first inhabitants of San Francisco. For countless generations Yelamu families lived nearby in a small village called Petlenuc, located one mile away near the entrance to the Golden Gate. Intimately familiar with the landscape, they thrived by collecting plants like tule and managing natural areas for resources to support their families' needs. The Yelamu used tule to build their houses (called reewah) and boats (called wahlee).
Indian people have long held close relationships with the plants. Plants have provided food,
shelter, clothing, baskets, cordage, games, musical instruments, hunting and other tools,
medicines - the list could go on. Plants were, and still are, thanked with offerings and sung to.
Linda Yamane, Rumsien Ohlone
The tule reeds in front of you were life sustaining material
for the Yelamu, a community of the Ohlone people who
were the first inhabitants of San Francisco. For countless generations Yelamu families lived nearby in a small village
called Petlenuc, located one mile away near the entrance to the Golden Gate. Intimately familiar with the landscape,
they thrived by collecting plants like tule and managing
natural areas for resources to support their families' needs.
The Yelamu used tule to build their houses (called reewah) and boats (called wahlee).
Location. 37° 47.241′ N, 122° 28.237′ W. Marker is in San Francisco, California, in San Francisco City and County. It is in Presidio Terrace. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: San Francisco CA 94118, United States of America. Touch for directions.
More about this marker. The marker is located on the south shore of Mountain Lake, in the Mountain Lake Park area of the Presidio, by the tennis courts.
Also see . . . Yelamu (Wikipedia). "The Yelamu were a tribelet of Ohlone people from the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. The term Yelamu, or "the western people" was used by east bay Ohlone to describe the Ohlone people living on the San Francisco Peninsula. A more correct identification is Ramaytush, according to an account by J.P. Harrington made in 1921 by a Chochenyo Ohlone who identified the peninsula as "ramai". Ramaytush was also the language spoken by them....
Randall Milliken's study, "A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1810," estimates
Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, August 23, 2020
2. San Francisco's First People Marker - wide view
that 160 to 300 Yelamu were living in San Francisco when the Spanish opened Mission San Francisco de Asís on June 30, 1776." (Submitted on August 23, 2020.)
Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, August 23, 2020
3. Tule Reeds (from marker site)
Credits. This page was last revised on February 7, 2023. It was originally submitted on August 23, 2020, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 263 times since then and 50 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on August 23, 2020, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
