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 href="https://apnews.com/article/california-native-americans-982b507a846a4ad6bc184b3e7f99ec70" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a call for genocide by the state’s first American governor</a> 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 <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-act-for-government-and-protection-of-indians/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">the Indian Act authorizing the enslavement</a> of Indigenous men, women and children. Today’s proposed legislation is supported by the sovereign nations that survived the California dream’s nightmare. <a href="https://anawakalmekak.medium.com/defend-american-indian-youth-support-california-indian-education-act-ab-1703-5071d2318e1e">Click Here</a>