Los Angeles should formally apologize to its Indigenous communities for decades of violence and mistreatment, according to a motion introduced Friday by City Councilman Mitch O'Farrell.
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Drought emergency expanded
The U.S. Drought Monitor shows most of California and the American West is in extensive drought just a few years after the state emerged from the last punishing multiyear dry spell
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May 11, 2021
In this March 5, 2020, file photo, Hunter Maltz, a fish technician for the Yurok tribe, pushes a jet boat into the low water of the Klamath River at the confluence of the Klamath River and Blue Creek as Keith Parker, as a Yurok tribal fisheries biologist, watches near Klamath, Calif., in Humboldt County. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)
The U.S. Drought Monitor shows most of California and the American West is in extensive drought just a few years after the state emerged from the last punishing multiyear dry spell
Out with Junípero Serra, in with Native Americans. Plan calls for replacing Capitol Park statue
Sacramento Bee 2 days ago Kim Bojórquez, The Sacramento Bee
Apr. 30 A California Democrat is seeking to replace a former statue of a controversial 18th-century Spanish missionary on the grounds of Sacramento s Capitol Park with a new monument that recognizes regional tribes.
Assembly Bill 338, authored by Assemblyman James C. Ramos, D-Highland, would strike a decades-old requirement to keep and maintain a monument of Father Junípero Serra, who is dubbed the father of the California missions.
Instead, the bill would allow tribal nations in the Sacramento region, in coordination with the Department of General Services, to plan and construct a new monument.
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