Posted on 11/16/2022 7:11:04 PM PST by marshmallow
State lawmakers and local tribal leaders shared details Monday on the plan to replace the toppled statue of missionary Junípero Serra in Sacramento with a monument dedicated to Native American tribes upon whose land California’s state Capitol grounds were built.
The new monument will feature William Franklin, a Miwok leader whom Assemblyman James C. Ramos called a “fierce protector and preservationist” of cultural dances and other ceremonies, and who also helped build three Northern California roundhouses.
“This monument that will be constructed and put forward here on the state Capitol will start to pave the way for the voices of all California Indian people to be heard in the state Legislature and in the educational arena,” Ramos said at a groundbreaking ceremony Monday morning, which included a 7-foot-tall cardboard cutout depicting Franklin’s likeness.
Ramos, D-Highland and the first California Native American elected to the state Legislature, penned Assembly Bill 338 in 2021, authorizing construction of the Native American monument to replace the Serra statue that protesters ripped down on July 4, 2020. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 338 into law last year.
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Too bad they’ll never build a statue of Jesus Christ.
So stupid.
Lol!
Little Big Man?
High cheekbones…
Chief spreading bull.
Good luck finding a they/them, transgender, queer Indian to honor.
Missionary Junípero Serra created California!!!!
We leaned about him in high school back in Arizona when I was young! He is NOT replaceable by any Native American, unless one prefers paganism!!!!
Without Fr. Serra there’s no California.
Why replace?
Just add.
Oh, forgot, in the very limited pantheon of leftist ‘talent’, only two of the four basic math functions are available to them: Subtract and divide.
Another celebration of the Stone Age that people lived in when the white man arrived here. Although in southern California they could put up at least one statue of that great Caveman, Fred Flintstone.
The “injun” who turned down Marlon Brando’s Oscar.
Hmmmm.....will the ‘new’ person have been a slave owner? If not him, his ancestors certainly. Do indigenous get a pass on being slave holders, slave traders, etc?
Next, the renaming of El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula (the Town of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula) to reflect current usage: henceforth simply known as Gehenna.
Jay Silverheels?
Exactly! 💯
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