Compare your draft with the one developed by the Land Acknowledgment Taskforce of the IDEA Committee at Miramar College.

Highlight on Local Activism: 

Bobby Wallace (Barona Band of Mission Indians) visited with the Miramar Native Issues Community of Inquiry in Spring 2022 to share about his and other Kumeyaay activists' work in San Diego County and beyond. Issues Wallace brought to our attention are highlighted in the news articles below: 

• Longest Walk 5: Walk to raise awareness and solidarity among Native people to end domestic violence and drug abuse. The Longest Walk was first established in 1978 by the American Indian Movement. (News from Native California, 2016) 

  • Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) has highlighted the Longest Walk on the blog for her project, Project 562. Hear from Wallce in Wilber's video, featured in this 2017 post.

• Kumeyaay activism to stop construction on the US-Mexico border wall (Sierra Club, 2020) 

• Kumeyaay support of Hualapai Nation's resistance to lithium mining on ancestral homelands (East County Magazine, 2021)