SACRAMENTO – As leaders of Native American tribes from throughout California collect for the 55th Annual Native American Day celebration on the state Capitol, Governor Gavin Newsom in the present day issued a proclamation declaring September 23, 2022, as Native American Day within the State of California.
The textual content of the proclamation and a duplicate may be discovered under:
PROCLAMATION
On California Native American Day, we honor and have fun the primary peoples and nations of this place who’ve lengthy stood for instance of the management, willpower, ingenuity and empathy wanted to face the existential challenges of local weather change, cultural shifts and assembly the wants of various communities.
The painful losses of the previous few years have reminded all Californians of what’s essential and what’s at stake. And Native communities specifically have skilled the devastating lack of larger-than-life leaders, culture-bearers, elders and relations whose absences shall be felt for generations to return. As we’ve got labored to construct resilience in our communities and deal with threats to our state’s future, California Native peoples have reignited the decision to motion to revive {our relationships} with the lands, waters, animals and one another by way of principals of sustainability, respect and reciprocity.
Now we have a novel alternative to reply this name to motion by first taking a vital and sincere have a look at our previous whereas supporting the management of California Native peoples. Our path ahead calls for that we substitute methods and symbols of oppression with a brand new imaginative and prescient of California that appreciates, as a baseline, the distinctive cultures and histories of the primary individuals of this place and displays the variety and contributions of all peoples who now name California residence.
Over the course of the final 12 months, we’ve got strived in partnership with California Native peoples to remodel the state and our collective tradition in ways in which many may solely dream of. Now we have labored with tribal nations to revive ancestral names and cultural practices to lots of the locations the place Native individuals have lived, survived and thrived in since time immemorial. Now we have helped empower Native communities to guide culturally-informed methods of care and start to deal with the disaster of Lacking and Murdered Indigenous Peoples. And, we’ve got appointed California Native peoples to the best ranges of state authorities, together with the first-ever California Tribal Affairs Secretary to guide a newly-established Governor’s Workplace of Tribal Affairs.
The state nonetheless has a lot to do to deal with long-standing injustices, make house for Native individuals and collectively create a California that higher embodies the values and strengths of all individuals. We’re dedicated to persevering with progress by listening, empowering and studying from the instance of the primary peoples of this place to create a extra inclusive, equitable and simply society.
I encourage all Californians to spend time on this Native American Day not solely studying concerning the wealthy histories, traditions and contributions of the various tribal communities all through the state, however discovering methods to reply the decision for reality, visibility and justice for California Native peoples.
NOW THEREFORE I, GAVIN NEWSOM, Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim September 23, 2022, as “Native American Day.”
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I’ve hereunto set my hand and brought about the Nice Seal of the State of California to be affixed this 23rd day of September 2022.
GAVIN NEWSOMGovernor of California
ATTEST:SHIRLEY N. WEBER, Ph.D.Secretary of State
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