LA County Board

19.\nTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2025\nUpdating the Countywide Land Acknowledgement\nRecommendation as submitted by Supervisor Solis: Adopt the following\nlanguage to be used as a formal Land Acknowledgment for the County and,\neffective on December 1, 2025, open all public meetings with the following\nCountywide Land Acknowledgment, to be verbally announced and displayed\nvisually:\nThe County of Los Angeles recognizes that we occupy land originally\nand still inhabited and cared for by the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh,\nand Chumash Peoples. We honor and pay respect to their elders and\ndescendants - past, present, and emerging - as they continue their\nstewardship of these lands and waters. We acknowledge that settler\ncolonization resulted in land seizure, disease, subjugation, slavery,\nrelocation, broken promises, genocide, and multigenerational trauma.\nThis acknowledgment demonstrates our responsibility and commitment to\ntruth, healing, and reconciliation and to elevating the stories, culture, and\ncommunity of the original inhabitants of Los Angeles County. We are\ngrateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these ancestral lands.\nWe are dedicated to growing and sustaining relationships with Native\npeoples and local tribal governments, including (in no particular order)\nthe\nFernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians\nGabrielino Tongva Indians of California Tribal Council\nGabrieleno/Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians\nGabrieleño Band of Mission Indians - Kizh Nation\nSan Manuel Band of Mission Indians Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation\nSan Fernando Band of Mission Indians\nCoastal Band of Chumash Nation\nGabrielino/Tongva Nation\nGabrielino Tongva Tribe\nTo learn more about the First Peoples of Los Angeles County, please visit\nthe Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission\nwebsite at lanaic.lacounty.gov. (25-5640)\nMotion by Supervisor Solis