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Adopt a resolution recognizing November 2020 as Native American Heritage Month (Supervisor Hannigan)
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
Supervisor Hannigan requests that the Board of Supervisors adopt a resolution recognizing November 2020 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. Long before the Spanish and other Euro-Americans arrived in the area today known as Solano County, the area was home to indigenous people known as the Patwin, or Southern Wintun.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The costs associated with preparing the agenda item are nominal and absorbed by District 1 FY2020/21 Adopted Budget. The costs associated with preparation and purchase of the resolution materials are included in the Board's FY2020/21 Adopted 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) begin 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.
Even though Solano County contains no reservations, the County of Solano enjoys a government-to-government relationship with the closest Patwin tribe, specifically the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, whose people live in an area now known as the Capay Valley in adjacent Yolo County, which literally means "home by the spring water."
Yocha Dehe is recognized ...
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