In 2017, the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe launched a new program called Visibility Through Art that would pave the way to a campaign culminating in 2024 with the purchase of a sweeping stretch of land—the site of an ancestral Nisenan village named Yulića.

Long ago, near Dawgošášiwa, the present-day Taylor Creek, two orphaned sisters argued with their grandfather. They expected more than he was willing or capable of providing. The grumpy elder couldn’t be bothered with the frivolous wants of moody teenagers. The next morning, when the old man went fishing, the sulking girls ran away.