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Adopt and present a resolution recognizing November 2024 as Native American Heritage Month (Supervisor Hannigan)
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
Supervisor Hannigan requests that the Board of Supervisors adopt and present a resolution recognizing November 2024 as Native American Heritage Month.
SUMMARY:
Native American Heritage Month has been established at the national and state levels with proclamations and celebrations to recognize the diverse cultures, traditions, histories, significant contributions and present day lives of Native Americans
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The costs associated with preparing the agenda item are nominal and absorbed by District 1 FY2024/25 Working Budget. The costs associated with preparation and purchase of the resolution materials are included in the Board's FY2024/25 Working Budget.
DISCUSSION:
Solano County is named for a Patwin leader, Sina or Sem Yeto, whom Spanish missionaries christened and assigned the Spanish name of "Solano." The earliest historic written records of the Patwin (which literally means "people" in the native tribal language) began with the Spanish mission explorations and registers, and ethno-historic records show the Patwin inhabited the lower hills of the eastern North Coast Ranges to the Sacramento River, and from Princeton south to the San Pablo and Suisun bays, including the City of Vallejo.
The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation successfully partners with Solano County to support several health and wellness programs designed to improve the lives of people in its ancestral territory, and the County greatly values its relationship with the Patwin tribe. Solano County honors the history of Yocha Dehe and its sister Patwin tribes, in tribute to all the people of Patwin descent whose ancestors once resided in Solano County.
ALTERNATIVES:
The Board could choose not to adopt this resolution; however, this...
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