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California is stripping the word “squaw” – a derogatory term for Indigenous women – from dozens of place names across 15 counties, state agencies recently announced.
The activists and Indigenous leaders, who filed their complaint with the EPA in December, have demanded that the state review and update the water quality plan for the Delta and San Francisco Bay.
California was admitted as a U.S. state on September 9, 1850. [8] The admission act made no reference to Native American land rights. [9] On their second day in office as California's first Senators, John Fremont and William M. Gwin introduced bills to extinguish all aboriginal title in California. [10]
The Act in essence facilitated the removal of Indigenous groups native to present-day California, and separated a generation of children and adults from their native culture, families, and languages. Additionally, it indentured Indigenous members to white people in the area. [13] The provisions of this act of important note are as follows: 3.
Cal NAGPRA (Assembly Bill (978)) was an act created by the state of California which was signed into law in 2001. The act was created to implement the same repatriation expectations for state-funded institutions, museums, repositories, or collections as those federally supported through NAGPRA.
Officials have approved the removal of the derogatory term "squaw" from over 30 geographic features and place names on California lands. California removes slur targeting Indigenous women from ...
In 1851, at the same time that the United States was setting up the Public Land Commission as required by the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo with the Republic of Mexico to verify the legality of the Ranchos of California Land Grants given California citizens prior to 1846, the government also set up a commission with military support that ...
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