Morning Star Gali & Assemblymember James C. Ramos discuss Tribal Bills including AB 2022 that removes the slur S**AW from California public lands, landmarks, and geographic locations. *The story is fully introduced and credited, plus a full song by Calina Lawrence is included at the end, with permission by Calina. Calina provides the music bedding under the narration as well.
This interview is also a part of hour long radio program “KPFA’S 2022 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY SPECIAL” which airs on 94.1 FM KPFA Berkeley and online at www.kpfa.org, Monday October 10th, 2022 at 8 am PST and again at 3 PM PST. You will also be able to hear the full show here on KPFA’s presents.
** Please note that also on y October 10th, there is the Annual Broadcast LIVE from the Alcatraz Indigenous People’s Day Gathering starting at 5:30 am PST.
Background information of additional Tribal Bills signed:
- AB 923 which requires state agency leaders to undertake training in properly communicating and interacting with tribes on government-to-government issues that affect them.
- AB 1314 that creates a “Feather Alert – similar to those used in cases of abducted children – to enlist public assistance to quickly find Native Americans missing under suspicious circumstances. Native Americans face disproportionate numbers of missing and murdered people in their communities.
- AB 1703, the California Indian Education Act, that encourages school districts, charter schools and county offices of education to engage with the tribes in their area to provide more accurate and complete instruction about the tribes’ culture and history and share instructional materials with the California Department of Education.
- AB 1936 which authorizes the University of California Hastings Law College of the Law to remove the name of its founder, Serranus C. Hastings from the school’s name and specifies restorative justice measures for the Yuki and Round Valley Native Americans in Northern California whose ancestors Hastings had slaughtered in the 1850s.
Read more about AB 2022 and other Tribal Bills by clicking on this link: https://a40.asmdc.org/press-releases/20220923-newsom-signs-ramos-bill-banning-use-slur-against-native-women-name