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California state agencies have signed off on the renaming of 30 locations across 15 counties with a name that is considered derogatory toward indigenous women.
“The ‘sq_’ is a word that denigrates Native American women and dehumanizes them,” California Assemblymember ... The department also issued a full map of places where names were replaced.
Tobacco use in the form of cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and other commercial products remains one of the leading causes of ...
California's population consisted of about 6,500 Californios (people of Spanish or Mexican decent), 700 foreigners (primarily Americans), and 150,000 Native Americans, whose numbers had been cut ...
The University of California and the California State University systems have consistently failed to return Native American artifacts and remains, with the exception of UCLA and Cal State Long Beach, ...
The de Saisset Museum houses an important collection of objects made or used by Native Californians. Some items speak to life before European contact and date from the time prior to the Spanish ...
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 and the California Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (CalNAGPRA) of 2001 establish the legal rights of ...
The number of Americans who identify at least partially as American Indian or Alaska Native grew from 5.2 million in 2010 to 9.7 million in 2020 – an 85% increase, according to the most recent ...
California's population consisted of about 6,500 Californios (people of Spanish or Mexican decent), 700 foreigners (primarily Americans), and 150,000 Native Americans, whose numbers had been cut ...