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Carmen Velazquez and Darrin Marroquin, winners of the 2023 and 2024 Change Our Name essay contest, at Fort Bragg High School graduation, 2024.
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Fort Bragg’s Fort Building Integrates a Tribal Learning Center to Embrace Indigenous History
By: Sarah Reith | MendoFever
January 20, 2024
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Native News Online
January 13, 2024
California Assemblyman James C. Ramos (San Manuel of Mission Indians). (Photo/Courtesy of Assembly James C. Ramos Office)
To read the case or get instruction on how to send a comment to the BGN go to: https://citizensforhealing.org
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Judge Jane Person, second place essayist Jo Erickson, first place essayist Carmen Velazquez, and nonprofit Change Our Name Board Chair Philip Zwerling
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UC Berkeley Anthropology graduate student Rabindra Hayashi sits behind the circulation desk of the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library on April 30, 2023, more than a week into an occupation of the library by student and faculty protesters seeking to block the university from closing it.
Junipero Serra statues have come down in California. Why does the state still have one in the US Capitol?
By GILLIAN BRASSIL | McClatchy DC
February 14, 2023
Photo by Gillian Brassil/McClatchy DC
California’s Junipero Serra statue, center, has represented California in the U.S. Capitol since 1931. An effort to replace it fizzled in 2015 when the pope was planning his first visit to the United States.
‘Disregarded as human beings’: survivors of Palm Springs demolition demand justice 60 years on
By Sonya Singh | The Guardian
January 15, 2023
Photograph by Taya Gray/The Desert Sun/USA TODAY NETWORK
Alvin Taylor in front of the Section 14 lot of land where his childhood home used to be in Palm Springs, California.
Its not called Squaw Valley anymore. Here's the new name of this Fresno County town.
By Mellisa Montalvo | The Sacramento Bee
(via MSN)
January 12, 2023
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Yokuts Valley
'A Great Day:' President Signs Karuk Land Back Bill into Law
POSTED BY THADEUS GREENSON
The North Coast Journal
January 6, 2023
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE KARUK TRIBE
For Karuk people, this mountain known as á'uuyich, is the center of their world, and it is located next to Katimiîn and Ameekyáaraam on lands the legislation will return to the tribe.
L.A. County to pay $20M for Black family’s seized land
By Associated Press and Alicia Victoria Lozano via NBC News
January 3, 2023
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Folsom's Negro Bar becomes 'Black Miners Bar' while State Park officials further study site history
Bill Sullivan
Gold Country Media
June 22, 2022
Yurok Tribal Council Asks Federal Government to Revise Racist Place Name
Yurok Press Release
Mendo Fever
May 13, 2022
Reckoning with a violent past: Lake County group working to change the name of Kelseyville
Austin Murphy
Press Democrat
March 24, 2022
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Popular California tourist town divided over changing racist namesake
Ariana Bindman
SFGATE
January 28, 2022
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Protecting Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ (Fish Run Place)—Restoring Indigenous Guardianship
Press Release
InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
January 25, 2022
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Fort Bragg citizen group unable to reach consensus on name change
MARY CALLAHAN - The Press Democrat
January 25, 2022
Indigenous activists want to change a California town’s racist name. Officials are pushing back
Dani Anguiano in Fresno county
The Guardian
November 25, 2021
Photograph by Evan Vucci/AP
Deb Haaland, interior secretary, declared ‘squaw’ to be a derogatory term on 19 November and said she is taking steps to remove the term from federal place names.
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Members of the Yuki tribe in Nome Cult farm
'Jeff Davis' scrubbed from Sierra peak near Lake Tahoe
Washoe Tribe's name approved for mountain
Mike Moffitt, SFGATE
July 10, 2020
