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Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.83,0:00:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It takes time to get to know this city. 
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.46,0:00:20.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether you're a student at CAL or just a resident. 
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.90,0:00:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone who lives here at some point or another discovers that Berkeley like. 
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.62,0:00:27.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rest of the Bay Area is a place of opportunity and culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.23,0:00:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how much do we know about the grounds beneath this city?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.10,0:00:34.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What about the people who lived here before us? What has changed for them?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.84,0:00:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what's next?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.08,0:00:37.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Jaden Cruz. 
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.38,0:00:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is Cal TV.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.27,0:00:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For thousands of years.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.64,0:00:49.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Ohlone people settled across the coast of northern California.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.82,0:00:54.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As hunter gatherers, they created a rich and diverse culture in various tribes. 
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.06,0:00:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Especially in the densely populated Bay Area.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.54,0:00:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After contact with both Spanish missionaries and. 
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.38,0:01:01.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries. 
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.56,0:01:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their numbers dropped significantly from both diseases and displacement.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.31,0:01:07.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, their descendants are still here today. 
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.54,0:01:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both as members of their respective tribes and as active Berkeley residents.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.52,0:01:14.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to find out how, how the city of Berkeley recognizes these tribes. 
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.10,0:01:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And looks to preserve the Ohlone legacy. I found my answer. 
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.82,0:01:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the Berkeley Shellmound. 
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.22,0:01:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The site of the 1904th Street project. 
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.44,0:01:25.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shell mounds are hills sized piles of shells. 
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.66,0:01:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tools, skeletons and soil created by thousands of years of use by Ohlone natives.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.52,0:01:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These piles stood high above the tides allowing tribes. 
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.54,0:01:36.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To settle near the shoreline on the remains of their ancestors.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.58,0:01:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite their importance to the Ohlone heritage. 
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.88,0:01:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many sites have been up covered or completely. 
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.53,0:01:44.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Destroyed by decades of American urban development.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.24,0:01:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first case, a dance pavilion for California's shell mound Park attraction.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.81,0:01:51.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More recently, a 19 acre shopping mall. 
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.05,0:01:52.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Emeryville.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.80,0:01:56.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2000, the city of Berkeley designated the parking lot across from. 
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.72,0:01:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spens fish grotto to be the site of the Berkeley Shell mound.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.41,0:02:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to the city. 
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.39,0:02:04.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This parking lot covers the largest shell mound ever recorded in the region.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.14,0:02:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's not entirely accurate. 
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.56,0:02:09.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maps like this have shown that the parking lot. 
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.72,0:02:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was between shell mounds here and here and other studies have claimed. 
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.48,0:02:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That there has been almost no evidence of any shell mound. 
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.67,0:02:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remains under the parking lot itself because of this ambiguity.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.91,0:02:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The lot was open to investors.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.49,0:02:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And pretty soon a number of urban planners. 
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.11,0:02:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Came together to design the 1904th Street project.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.35,0:02:27.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The project plans to use 33,000 square feet for restaurant. 
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.44,0:02:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And retail space with a 135 apartment complexes above.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.13,0:02:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite the project's proposed benefits to the housing market in West Berkeley. 
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.87,0:02:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many residents have voiced their concerns. 
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.89,0:02:38.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Specifically that it would desecrate. 
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.72,0:02:42.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ohlone legacy after reading so much about the Berkeley Shell mound.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.12,0:02:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to see the site for myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.03,0:02:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I decided to take the 51 B down to Berkeley Amtrak Station. 
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.87,0:02:48.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right next to Spenger's. 
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.91,0:02:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parking lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.90,0:03:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a lot more construction here than I had realized.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.68,0:03:32.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looks like this area is kind of a key place for real estate in the city of Berkeley.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.98,0:03:37.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But these murals give you a glimpse of the world before urban development here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.61,0:03:53.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So surrounding this area is. 
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.87,0:03:58.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fourth Street University hurst and the train tracks everywhere. 
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.24,0:04:03.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around here used to be the shell mounds which piled up 40 50 ft high. 
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.08,0:04:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of Ohlone remains and artifacts.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.94,0:04:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Ohlone tribes would live on those shell mounds. 
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.04,0:04:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they were kind of like burial grounds.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.68,0:04:11.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite that. 
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.20,0:04:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The city of Berkeley considers this particular parking lot to be. 
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.63,0:04:17.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The site of the Berkeley shell mound and it's a landmark.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.56,0:04:20.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of debatable whether it was actually the site.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.19,0:04:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The controversy surrounding the parking lot is not new to the Bay area.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.55,0:04:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many activists began protests against the construction. 
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.07,0:04:30.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the Emeryville shell mound in 2002.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.59,0:04:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 such activist was Karina Gould who began the IPOC. 
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.88,0:04:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Indian people organizing for change in an effort to raise awareness about the. 
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.59,0:04:40.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Native heritage in the Bay area and the destruction of their shell mounds.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.00,0:04:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Corrina's objective is to protect these. 
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.71,0:04:45.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grounds by gaining federal recognition for active. 
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.19,0:04:48.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ohlone tribes and protecting the Berkeley Shell mound is one of her priorities.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.98,0:04:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In March of this year, the IPOC proposed an alternate design for the lot,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.73,0:04:55.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A park with a 40 ft high mound that would provide. 
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.16,0:04:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As both a cultural monument and a space for preservation.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.11,0:04:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is another side to the issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.87,0:05:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Andrew Galvin. 
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.73,0:05:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Ohlone representative who is overseeing. 
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.69,0:05:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The construction of 1904th Street has voiced his support. 
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.95,0:05:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the project saying that the parking lot. 
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.03,0:05:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was mistakenly landmarked in the first place.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.37,0:05:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as studies have shown he may not be wrong. 
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.62,0:05:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That the project promises 135 new homes for Berkeley residents. 
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.30,0:05:20.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,10% of which will be designated for low income families.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.62,0:05:22.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is hard to say that preserving the lot. 
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.50,0:05:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Based on outdated information is really worth it. 
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.96,0:05:28.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Especially in Berkeley's current housing market at the moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.10,0:05:31.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The future is uncertain for city planners and the IPOC.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.54,0:05:33.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's important for students like us to learn more. 
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.82,0:05:36.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About what's happening in our city to stay informed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.22,0:05:37.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are your thoughts on this?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.62,0:05:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you think that the investors have a right. 
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.13,0:05:40.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To build on the site if it wasn't actually. 
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.98,0:05:42.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shell mound or do you think that the culture. 
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.66,0:05:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of Berkeley is threatened by city projects like this?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.12,0:05:47.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let us know what you think in the comments below.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.30,0:05:49.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to find out more about the Berkeley Shell mound. 
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.44,0:05:53.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the 1904th Street project check out our links in the description.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.10,0:05:56.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A very special thanks to the cinematographers who helped me film this video.   
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Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.68,0:06:04.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you for watching.