Native American Heritage Month

Land Acknowledgement

The City of Los Angeles recognizes that we occupy land originally and still inhabited and cared for by the Kizh, Tongva, Tataviam, and Chumash Peoples. We honor and pay respect to their elders and descendants — past, present, and emerging — as they continue their stewardship of these lands and waters.  We acknowledge that settler colonization resulted in land seizure, disease, subjugation, slavery, relocation, broken promises, genocide, multigenerational trauma, and the disruption of cultural practices, trade, and tribal relations. This acknowledgment demonstrates our responsibility and commitment to truth, healing, and reconciliation — and to elevating the stories, culture, and community of the original inhabitants of the City of Los Angeles. We are grateful for the opportunity to live and work on these ancestral lands.

We also honor the self-attestation of current mission-based Tribes confirming their connection to the ancestral lands on which we live and work today:  
Gabrieleno San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians, led by the Gabrieleno Tongva Tribal Council
Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians – Kizh Nation
Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians
Northern Chumash Tribal Council