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California has the fifth-highest number of missing and murdered Indigenous people cases in the country. How did we get here?

After passing Public Law 280 in 1953, Congress essentially washed its hands of funding law enforcement and criminal justice on tribal lands in six states: Alaska, California, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon and Wisconsin. That meant much fewer resources for public safety and significant obstacles to preventing or resolving cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people in these states.

Legislative and Tribal leaders will unveil a California Native American Monument in Sacramento’s Capitol Park at a dedication ceremony in November.

Native American Heritage Month. Tribal leaders, lawmakers, students, and other dignitaries will be on hand on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 for the unveiling of a historic monument dedicated to memorialize the Native Americans in Capitol Park on the grounds of California’s state capitol in Sacramento, California.

(FOX40.COM) —  More than 400 tribal members, dignitaries, and students gathered to unveil the first-ever Capitol monument acknowledging tribes residing in California and their millennia-long presence on land now known as California.

California Native Americans praise importance of new Indigenous monument in Sacramento.
 

A bronze sculpture of the late William "Bill" Franklin will soon stand tall at the corner of L and 13th streets in Sacramento.