“Ishman colma carac yonahi acho isha hachche ahmush owahto harwee irshah”
“Sun, moon, sky, village, friend, alive: we eat, drink, sing and dance.” - Rammaytush
The area that is now San Francisco was a veritable garden of eden for the Rammaytush people. It had a temperate climate, plenty of seafood and game, forest for shelter, and an abundance of fresh water. Almost all that is left is the temperate climate and few of the old waterways beneath our streets.
You do not need to physically go to the start point to solve, but I would recommend it because its a nice walk from start to end.
The starting point is at the location of the spring that fed the Old Stream of Sorrows. The path of this stream is what we call today, The Wiggle. If you followed this stream towards the bay it would lead you to the Lake of Sorrows which then fed the Mission Creek. Mission Creek even to this day is listed as a navigable waterway. South of the Old Stream of Sorrows is the Stream of Sorrows which also flowed east and fed the Lake of Sorrows (the Spanish sucked at names)
Between the two Streams of Sorrows there is a cemetery where you will find the founder of the two most populous Bay Area cities. This cemetery and its buildings were built with forced Rammaytush labor and are the oldest buildings in the city.
The forced labor of the Rammaytush helped lay the foundation for the city as we know it today, yet it is hardly ever talked about. So much so that the plaque describing the Rammaytush as the first people of San Francisco was not even placed until 1995 and it’s hard to find. You’re looking for this plaque and the plaque about the first of these buildings on the shore of the Lake of Sorrows