Today is Indigenous Heritage Day, a day for remembering the indigenous civilization living here in San Diego County thousands of years before Europeans arrived. The following two links offer further info into the movement by which the descendants of our county’s original residents have reasserted their historical legacy and assumed agency over their history and their future.
The first is a link to the resolution adopted by San Diego State University in 2019, acknowledging the legacy of the university’s site as Kumeyaay land:
And this is the link to the website of the California Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center at California State University San Marcos. If you go to the site and then click on “Land Acknowledgement”, you’ll see an explanation of the agreement acknowledging the Cal State site’s legacy as “the traditional territory of the Luiseño/Payómkawichum people.”
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