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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.

Democratic Assemblymember James C. Ramos speaks during a ceremony that unveiled a Native American monument in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. California lawmakers and Native American tribes celebrated the unveiling of a monument outside of the state Capitol building to commemorate the history of Sacramento-area tribes. Ramos, the first Native American in the state Legislature, authored legislation in 2021 to build the monument on state Capitol grounds.

California lawmakers and tribes have unveiled a monument outside of the state Capitol commemorating the contributions of Native Americans