A tunnel leads between Old Sacramento and the Downtown Plaza (the major shopping mall downtown). In the tunnel, there is a large display of the faces of the historical figures deemed most important in Sacramento's history. Here's the last section of the mural: S. Clinton Hastings (1814-1893), First Supreme Court Justice; John Sutter, Jr. (1826-1897), City Founder; James Marshall (1810-1885), Carpenter and Discoverer of Gold; John Sutter (1803-1880), Land Baron; and last of all, a random nameless woman merely labeled with the name of her Native American nation, the Nisenan, and the words "First Settlers: lived and worked in the Sacramento Valley for thousands of years before Europeans arrived." Yes, but what specifically did they do before the Europeans (not really Europeans, but Americans of European descent) arrived? We aren't told, and perhaps can't be, really, because their individual names and a lot of other details about them have been obliterated, because so few of them survived their confrontations with the people of European descent that the Nisenan language is considered entirely extinct already.