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 AJR-18 Recognition of the historical wrongdoing committed against California Native Americans.(2025-2026)

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AJR18:v99#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Revised
 July 14, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Joint Resolution

No. 18

Introduced by Assembly Member Ramos
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bryan, Harabedian, Kalra, Pacheco, Addis, Aguiar-Curry, Ahrens, Alanis, Alvarez, Arambula, Ávila Farías, Bains, Bauer-Kahan, Bennett, Berman, Boerner, Bonta, Calderon, Caloza, Carrillo, Castillo, Chen, Connolly, Davies, DeMaio, Dixon, Elhawary, Flora, Fong, Gabriel, Garcia, Gipson, Jeff Gonzalez, Mark González, Hadwick, Haney, Hart, Hoover, Irwin, Jackson, Krell, Lee, Lowenthal, Macedo, Muratsuchi, Nguyen, Ortega, Papan, Patel, Patterson, Pellerin, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Ransom, Rivas, Celeste Rodriguez, Michelle Rodriguez, Rogers, Blanca Rubio, Sanchez, Schiavo, Sharp-Collins, Solache, Soria, Stefani, Ta, Tangipa, Valencia, Wallis, Ward, Wicks, Wilson, and Zbur)

June 30, 2025

 Relative to California Native Americans. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AJR 18, as introduced, Ramos.
 Recognition of the historical wrongdoing committed against California Native Americans.

This measure would recognize the historical wrongdoing committed against California Native Americans and urge the federal government to work alongside tribal leaders to address historic injustices, uphold treaty obligations, and ensure equitable access to resources, healthcare, education, and environmental stewardship.

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WHEREAS, In the incorporation of the California territory into the United States of America in 1848, the California State Legislature was complicit in the actions taken by the State of California against the Native people of this land. The California State Legislature directed, supported, and aided in the early persecutions of Native Americans, fueling the violence by public officials and residents of this state against the Native people in their ancestral home land; and

WHEREAS, In 1849, delegates of the California Constitutional Convention willfully and deliberately agreed to provisions in the new Constitution to deny the Native people of California the right to vote in its state. The delegates of the convention, in a majority, affirmed only allowing white male citizens of the United Sates and white Mexican men, who elected to be citizens of the United States under the peace treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the right to vote; and

WHEREAS, As one of the first actions taken as the newly established Legislature of the State of California in 1850, it passed “An Act for the Government and Protection of Indians,” which facilitated the removal of Indigenous groups from their lands through family separation and indentured servitude. This act also prohibited Indigenous people and other minorities from serving as credible witness against criminal acts committed by white citizens; and

WHEREAS, The California State Legislature in “An Act for the Government and Protection of Indians” criminalized the actions of Native Americans who they believed to be “vagrants.” Specifically, the Act imposed on Native Americans “who shall be found loitering and strolling about, or frequenting public places where liquors are sold, begging, or leading an immoral or profligate course of life” the threat of arrest “on the complaint of any resident citizen of the county, and brought before any Justice of the Peace of the proper county, Mayor or Recorder of any incorporated town or city, who shall examine said accused Indian, and hear the testimony in relation thereto.” If the Native American was so found to be a vagrant, the act directed the “officer having him in charge or custody, to hire out such vagrant within twenty-four hours to the best bidder, by public notice given as he shall direct,
 for the highest price that can be had, for any term not exceeding four months”; and

WHEREAS, The California State Legislature allowed the Governor to use Article VII of the 1849 Constitution relating to their authority to call upon militias to execute the laws of the state, to suppress any insurrection and to repel any invasion, to peruse and punish Native Ame