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City of Pleasanton, Draft General Plan Page 4 October 9, 2008 And for some reason the City of Pleasanton somehow does not find any worth or contribution of our Tribe's ancestors and membership for inclusion in this Draft General Plan of our Tribe's history and heritage. There is a saying that we have that related to the "Politics of Erasure" that is if one erases or reduces the presence of our Tribe in the normative course of doing the dominant society's business, by not being included the Tribe is thus rendered invisible and therefore inconsequential, and therefore, will not be considered a stakeholder in any of these legal and cultural processes. Muwekma's Historical Ties to the Greater Pleasanton Area Historically, this greater Pleasanton area has specific significance to our Tribe because our direct ancestors are traced to aboriginal Tribal groups and villages from this region of the East Bay. Direct ancestors of the Armija/Thompson lineage who are enrolled in our Tribe, have been traced to the Alson Ohlone Tribal group from the Fremont Plain and were recorded at Missions Santa Clara and San Jose to be aboriginal to the "del Estero" or "Alameda" District. The Armija/Thompson lineage is traced through Magdalena Armija (born May 26, 1878 on the Alisal Rancheria), and who was the daughter of Muwekma Indians Jose Elias Armijo and Delfina Guerrera. Magdalena's father, Jose Elias was born October 1842 and was the son of Muwekma Indians Silvestre (MSJ baptismal 292) and Perpetua (MSJ 1636). Silvestre was born on February 26, 1800 and he and his parents Chrisanto Acaniacsi (MSJ 246) and Chrisanta (MSJ 251), are identified as coming from "del Estero Another direct ancestor of the Marine lineages was Liberato Culpecse, who was baptized at Mission Dolores in 1801, and he was from the Jalquin/Yrgin Ohlone Tribal group whose territory included the greater south Oakland/Hayward/San Leandro /San Lorenzo area. The City of Pleasanton lies within our direct ancestral and cultural interaction sphere. During the early 20 Century the great- grandsons and great granddaughters of Liberato Culpecse (b. 1787) and Efrena Quennatole (b. 1797), through their daughter Maria Efrena (b. 1832), through her daughter Avelina Cornates (b. 1863), through her children Dario Marine (b. 1888), Dolores Marine (b. 1890), Victoria Marine (b. 1897), Lucas Marine (b. 1899) and Trinidad Martha Marine (b. 1901), were all born on the Alisal Rancheria and their children and grandchildren had lived and continue to live in the Pleasanton, Niles, Newark, Alvarado Decoto, Centerville and Fremont areas to present day. The other Armija and Armija/Thompson lineages and the enrolled Piflos /Santos /Juarez lineages have lived in the Sunol, Niles and Newark area since 1910 through present -day. The Nichols and enrolled Guzman lineages also have lived and continue to live in the greater Tri- Valley area as well. Federal Indian Population census records demonstrate that Muwekma ancestors resided, grew up and raised their families within the Pleasanton area on the Alisal Rancheria. Today, enrolled Tribal members reside within the Tri- Valley area of our ancestral territory thus, demonstrating a continuous "occupation" of our ancestral homeland. Some Additional Detailed Historic Background on the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe As you may already know, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe is comprised of all of the surviving lineages who are aboriginal to the San Francisco Bay Region and whom were missionized into Missions Dolores, Santa Clara and San Jose. Our Tribe became Federally recognized through the Congressional Homeless California Indian Appropriation Acts of 1906 and 1908 and later years, and our Tribe was identified as the Verona Band of Alameda County by the Indian Service Bureau and the Reno, and later, Sacramento Agencies between 1906 to 1927. Our family heads enrolled with the BIA under the 1928 California Indian Jurisdictional Act and all of our applications were approved by the Secretary of Interior.