END the California Native American GENOCIDE

What if I told you that California has failed to acknowledge the severity of the plight of the continued tribal existence of California Tribes and Bands and perpetuates the California Indian Genocide with its continued denial? 

Did you know that California has the highest concentration of Non-Federally Acknowledged tribes in America?  

What if I told you the State of California is responsible for a genocide that continues today?  

Would you believe that early California legislators prevented America from honoring it's treaties (18 signed in 1852) with a Bureau of Indian Affairs estimation of 134 California Tribes and Bands? 

That is 170 years of broken treaties, and still counting, caused by the State of California. 

               This plight is known as Genocide Through Bureaucracy:  

Lawfully Deny Tribal Existence, Lawfully Refute Tribal Legitimacy, Starve & Kill The Culture of a People.

Why are there so many Non Federally Acknowledged Tribes in California?

Due to pressure from California delegates, Congress failed to ratify 18 early California treaties, with 134 California Tribes and Bands, and ordered them to remain secret. 

1 in 4 Tribes currently seeking Federal Acknowledgement are from California.

Many households of Non-Federally Acknowledged California Tribal families live below the Federal poverty line.

Over 80,000 tribal members indigenous to California are affected.

State Recognition is a prerequisite to certain Federal benefits.  

                                               HOW CAN YOU HELP

                                                  Sign the Petition

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Tell Governor Newsom to immediately Acknowledge ALL California Tribes and Bands by creating through Executive Order a Lawful Process of California State Tribal Acknowledgement. (916) 445-2841  

Today, many Non-Federally Acknowledged tribes face language and cultural extinction, teetering on ethnocide.

June 19, 2019 Governor Newsom delivered an apology, on behalf of the State of California, for the California Indian Genocide, at a meeting with Tribal leaders at the state capital. 

California’s Non-Federally Acknowledged Tribes were NOT invited and included in the states' formal apology of its treatment towards its first people. 

Created by Governor Newsom via Executive Order N-15-19, The California Truth & Healing Council will submit a final written report by 2025 

The truth is that California bears responsibility for creating this disparity, by preventing Federal Acknowledgement through the ratification of its early tribal treaties.  Healing begins first and foremost with the formal State Acknowledgement of ALL California Tribes.

End California's continued systematic extermination and eradication of its Non-Federally Acknowledged tribes.

Sign and stand with us, amplifying our call to Governor Newsom to establish a formal process to acknowledge ALL tribes of California, so that he may fully achieve the spirit of his 2019 apology.

Too many elders have journeyed to the spirit world without ever receiving an acknowledgement of their California Tribal status as a person and as a people. Our tribal youth deserve a brighter and equal future, not the burden of an intergenerational trauma.

We call upon Governor Newsom to utilize his powers of executive order, authorizing the creation of a formal process of State Acknowledgement for ALL Tribes Indigenous to California. 

                                     Thank You & God Bless.

(This is a co-led youth effort) All Support Is Welcomed.

 

Email:

acknowledgealltribes@gmail.com

&

youth4acknowledgement@gmail.com