In the San Francisco Bay Area, demand for land seems endless. Property values are sky-high , rents are backbreaking, and people just keep coming. Over 2 million more are expected to settle here by 2040. Bulldozers and backhoes reshape neighborhoods. Cranes dominate the horizon. Land, with a home or high-rise plopped atop, can build a fortune for its owner.

Todays land rush is nothing new. For more than 200 years, there has been a run on Bay Area real estate a relentless wave of colonization , then suburbanization and now gentrification that left the Ohlone, the Bay Areas first people, landless.

Nobody knew about us, said Corrina Gould, a Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone leader and activist. There was this process of colonization that erased the memory of us from the Bay Area.