Defend American Indian Youth ??? Support California Indian Education Act (AB 1703)

Assemblymember Ramos’ California Indian Education Act adds urgency to what has been a decades-long crisis created by the almost two centuries of American colonization of this state. Beginning with a call for genocide by the state’s first American governor after the wholesale usurpation of the sovereign Indigenous territories now known as California by the United States, compulsory government schooling has been a tool for deculturalization, linguicide and disenfranchisement. By 1850, the California legislature enacted the Indian Act authorizing the enslavement of Indigenous men, women and children. Today’s proposed legislation is supported by the sovereign nations that survived the California dream’s nightmare.

Click Here