Recommendation to enact a resolution for the City of Long Beach recognizing October 9th, 2017 and every second Monday in October henceforth, as Indigenous People's Day.
move it from the end to now. So if we can go and hear that item. I know there's a lot of folks here for that. We'll just try to hear that one next. Okay. So with that, Councilman Pearce. Thank you, Mayor. So I would like. Well, you guys need to read the item. Yes. You want to read that? Why don't you go ahead. Communication from Councilmember Pierce, Councilwoman Price and Council Member Super Non recommendation to enact a resolution recognizing October 9th, 2017 and every second Monday in October, henceforth as Indigenous People Day. Yes. Yes. So you understand. Councilmember Pearce. Thank you. And thank you guys for your patience. And thank you for reading the agenda item. So today, I think, is a day that's really important to a lot of folks. And a day, as I said, outside, has been long coming and it's a little too late. But it's it's today is the day that we get to celebrate our indigenous people that live in Long Beach, that make Long Beach great and that make the United States great. So I want to thank you guys for your sacrifices, for your love, and for reminding so many of us what it means to love Mother Earth and stay connected to that. And so, as I mentioned outside, I believe that you guys help bridge cultural divides and that it's really important that we have a space to celebrate your contributions. And so what I'd like to do today is ask Amy ERICKSEN, the chair of the Human Relations Commission, to come and speak. And then if we could then have a little presentation from you guys a short 3 minutes, and then we can go behind the rail and hear the rest of public comment. Okay. I know I just kind of took over the meeting, Mayor, but that way we can do this, so I'll let you go ahead. Thank you, Councilwoman Pierce, honorable mayor and of course, city council. I'm honored to. Be here on behalf of the Human Relations Commission to read our letter of support for this important item. Also, before I read, I would like all of those in support of this item to please stand while I read the letter. The Human Relations Commission requests the City Council of Long Beach to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday of October each year. Currently, several municipalities and states recognize some form of indigenous peoples day, including the states of Vermont, South Dakota, the cities of Phenix, Seattle, Denver and of course, now Los Angeles. By observing Indigenous Peoples Day. An appropriate focus is placed on important current and historical events related to the genocide, struggles and contributions of Native Americans. Long Beach has its own historical ties to Native American history. The Indian village of Fonda, near Kelsey, Long Beach, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. During the 1990, the Save Permanent Coalition successfully organized to stop the historical site from becoming a commercial development. The proving the grounds remain a sacred site for the Abilliono and Tongva Indians. Earlier in the year, local leaders addressed the Human Relations Commission to advocate for official recognition of the contributions and history of indigenous people and Native Americans . During their presentation, they shared how the traditional approach to tribal decision making has a focus on transparency and consensus building. The Commission agreed that these were values in line with our commission and important for the promotion of inclusivity of all people in our local government and our communities, especially at this time. As Lombard City Council's Principal Advisory Commission promoting better understanding among the diverse ethnic cultural groups in Long Beach, the Human Relations Commission submits to the Lombard City Council the following. Recommendation. The Human Human Relations Commission strongly urges the City Council to enact a resolution for the City of Long Beach to observe Indian Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday of October on an ongoing and annual basis. I would like to invite Cheyenne, Phenix students at Lombard City College and a resident here in Long Beach as the next generation of our elders to really come up and speak to what this means to our community. And she's a president of the Native American Student Association and Lombard City College. Thank you all. Hold on. Hold on 1/2. I'm just trying to I'm trying to understand, is this part of the presentation or just public comment? It's part of the presentation. Okay. Because we have to do this as part of public comment as well. And so I'm going to just include this is part of public comment. Okay. So please go ahead. Continue. Yeah, it's a minor who council. Thank you for having us. Thank you to Supernova Councilmember Supernova Price. And Peirce for bringing. This resolution up. And, Amy. My name is Cheyenne Phenix. I'm a student at Long Beach City College. I wanted to start off with. The personal testimony of when I was in elementary school to all the way in high school. Of the experience that I faced of oppression and marginality within elementary school all throughout high school, that I was ashamed of who I was, of my long hair. And my name. Because students would see me as something other than what they were. And I didn't have many friends. And I was always made fun of because the way my name is and my the way I. Looked, which was different from other students. So from then on, I guess going into a little bit of history from 1490 to beginning the colonization of the Americas, North and South America and Central America to 1776 declared the US independence all the way to current day 2017. Indigenous people have faced genocide, colonialism and also the values that we did not live by, which is capitalism and greed. And those are the values we do not live by. And we also acknowledge our ancestors. And we lived here in harmony and peace with the land and the earth and each other. And I wanted to acknowledge our ancestors and the people of this land as well. The Tonga, people who are no longer here, but only the descendants are here and still carrying their voice. And I am the result of that. I am still here. Our people are still here. Despite all of the atrocities that happened to our people, the devastations and massacres of Wounded Knee, the massacres in the Navajo Nation, in the Navajo territory, in the Cherokee Nation, all the way to the Iroquois, all the way to across Mother Earth, throughout Turtle Island, to the Philippines, to Africa, to other indigenous communities. I want to acknowledge all the indigenous people that are here. We faced historical trauma for 525 years and it's continuing today. And as the great chief Sitting Bull said, let us put our minds clear and see what we could do for our children. That's what we should do here. And that's what I urge you to do, is to vote unanimously to maintain the right side of history, and please do something that will be better for this community, for the world to see as a as an international city. Long Beach and the county of L.A. this morning has just passed and recognized indigenous Peoples Day as the second Monday of October and as well as the city of L.A.. So please do the right thing and vote for this to happen. Okay? Thank you. Thank you very much. But so we're going to go thank you very much. We're going to go back to the council for up for some discussion and then I'll open it up for if there's additional public comment, I will put it up for public comment after the council. Councilmember Pearce. Yes, thank you, Mayor, and thank you for presenting that to us. I first want to thank my colleagues that have signed on to this item and recognize that this room has some people, that this matters a great deal too. But this is not everybody. And recognize that Councilmember Supernormal, this was an item that was dear to him. And I know there were people that you had asked us to reach out to, but we are moving quickly on this. So I just want to recognize that not everybody could be in the room today. Second, I would like to say that I need to make an amendment to this item just to make sure that we move this the correct way. I want to make an amendment that it reads that this is a recommendation to direct the city attorney to draft a resolution that would then return back to this council next Tuesday to make the second Monday in October henceforth as Indigenous Peoples Day. And so that is what I'm asking my colleagues to support us on today. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Pryce. Thank you. I want to thank Councilwoman Pearce for bringing this item forward tonight, and I appreciate the comments that were already made, especially from our Human Relations Commission. I was student body president at Cal State Long Beach during the debates and during those times, and I remember them vividly. And I am very fortunate to be alongside colleagues who believe it's important to recognize the role and the history of the indigenous population in the city of Long Beach. I thank everyone who came out tonight and I thank my colleague for bringing it forward. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzales. Yes. As the city council before has supported Standing Rock. We will absolutely. I know I will absolutely support this item. And I also think, Councilmember Pearce, for bringing this forward. This is absolutely what Long Beach needs and I look forward to celebrating that day. Thank you. Vice Mayor Richardson. A standing, strong supporter of this recommendation. I think it's a no brainer for me. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Durango. As the child of immigrant parents whose parents my great grandparents were Native American, when we phrase it, they were. They were Mexican. Indian. Up in the hills of Sonora. I strongly support this. Thank you, Councilman Andrews. Yes. If there was a time for us to support anything, it would be this item here today. And I strongly support this. Thank you very much. Thank you, Councilwoman Mango. I also want to lend my support to this item. Congratulations. I can count. And I think you can, too. Thank you, Councilmember Supernatant. Thank you all. I'll follow with my colleagues in being brief. I signed on to this item and I stand in support. Thank you. Thank you. Well, you all got a unanimous vote, which is great. So I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and open up. There is a second public comment if anyone else wants to speak. But if I can, please ask you to just keep it brief, because I think it's worth well where this is going to be a unanimous vote. So and I moved it up from the end. So it's for you guys. Okay. So thank you. All, mayor and council members. My name is May Lee Blackwell. I'm born in Long Beach, raised in Long Beach. And this is the first time I've ever had the honor to appear before you. I teach at UCLA in Chicano studies, in American Indian Studies. But I'm a product of Long Beach, and I live in Long Beach, so I commute to UCLA just because my heart belongs here. I'm also a native member of District one, and like many urban American Indian folks, I was born here in Long Beach. I am Cherokee and Thai heritage, but I grew up in a largely Mexican neighborhood, and that's how I teach in Chicano studies, and that's how we do in Long Beach. Right. We're part of a diverse community. And I want to say that I'm completely honored to follow Cheyenne and the youth that's taking leadership here for us and and speak with you. And I wanted to say, as a faculty member at UCLA, we have this really amazing mapping indigenous L.A. project that's not just about honoring the Tongva whose land we're on, who are not just in the past, but members presently who are doing educational workshops for LAUSD and hopefully for Long Beach Unified to help them develop materials to teach to our children so that things like teen suicide among American Indian youth don't continue to be disproportionately so high because people. And so students like and won't continually to be shamed in the classroom by distorted histories. I also want to say that indigenous people are among the Latin American Indigenous Diaspora. We have a huge Zapotec and Mayan community. We have a Samoan and Pacific Islander community and American Indian community. And so I feel like this resolution honors all the indigenous peoples of our community. It's part of the diverse face of who we are and it gives an important view. It also sometimes I think we hide our own diversity hidden. I'm a founding member of Cats, the city of Long Beach to Spirit Society, and we're in every kind of civic and political and social group. So Native people are among what we call to spirit LGBT community. And so we are here honoring your I was going to encourage you to support, but since you're already supporting, I'm honoring your support. And also just I'm you know, also alumni of Cal State Long Beach was there during the struggle and and just completely honored that Long Beach is joining the right side of history and that we're acting to stand up to celebrate our actually existing diversity, because lots of folks want to put Indian folks only in the past. But we're here right now in front of you, speaking with you and being with you. So with the open heart, I honor your decision and thank you. And we'll be here, I think, next week for an. Their motion. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. I am so L.A. Gonzales is the last speaker of the speakers lists of close the speakers list. Very good. Hold on a second. If you could hear and close the speakers list, are you going to be Christiansen? Are you going to speak? Okay. Christiansen is the last speaker. And please, if we can just keep this brief, I'm going to because I think I'm going to go after Mr. Good here. We're gonna go down to 2 minutes. Mr. Good here. I support this, but I want to support it in an enhanced and slightly different way instead of limiting it to one day. I want to meld this paradigm into what I have often suggested before this council is that instead of having just one day what we will do, what will should be done, is take . The. Weekend of the longest day of the year in the middle of the summer. Starting at noon on that Friday ending at 9:00. That's that the following Sunday. And what they can do and what I've always said to all these different groups is we'll have a people's day and they can march from sunup to sundown here and there , over here, all over. They'll take in the biggest park up this road, down this road, under this road here and there, wherever. Not just for one day, but starting Friday night, all Saturday, all Sunday till Sunday night, no matter who it is. Indians, blacks, whites, combinations of gay, straight, even Democrats. All right. That makes sense. Instead of just having it one day and then also every week, a council is devoted to items like this. This day, it's this group. Next week, it'll be another group next week. All right. The business of this country is business. That is the only thing this council should spend its time on, period, because without the business we don't have the money. To pay for people's housing food. They don't have jobs. So let's enhance it. Don't limit it to one day. That's three days. Friday night till Sunday march. Here and there. Everywhere over hill, over Dale. Under the bridge. Over the bridge, up the road, wherever. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, friends. My name is Red. I am an organizer with refuse fascism dot org, which is the movement unifying around the single objective to drive out the Trump-Pence regime. And we are here today uniting with red earth defense in their call to support Indigenous Peoples Day, and we would like to officially endorse that. And also, I have a message for the city of Long Beach on November 4th, 2017. We are calling on the masses nationwide to take to the. Streets in. Cities and towns across the country, including Long Beach. At first denying. In our thousands, declaring in our thousands that that this regime must go and this regime is illegitimate. This has been a nightmare, a nightmare for Native American people in Donald Trump, pushing a vicious Make America Great Again mantra, which glosses over the fact that. The. This country was never great. It was founded upon the. Extermination and. The dispossession of Native American people. This is a nightmare for immigrants who. Their next step could mean. Deportation, detention or being. Separated. From their loved ones. This is a nightmare for black and Latina people who are being openly targeted by this administration, who are having vicious police brutality unleashed upon them, mass incarceration and the wanton murder of our youth by the police who are supposed to serve and protect. This is a nightmare for women and so rectified, degraded. Thank you so much for your time, please. So we are. Calling on. The masses. Thank you. Join us November 4th. It begins November 4th. We realize there are fascists in the house, but we are calling on the masses to join us November 4th. Go to refuse fascism. All right, folks. So the mayor stepped out. We're going to continue to run this meeting in order. We have 2 minutes. Please try to remain on topic and we'll make sure everyone has an opportunity to speak. Thank you, sir. Please come forward and provide your testimony. What a living in that beautiful world, a beautiful country like United States. My name is Guillermo Hernandez. And I am so happy to come back to Long Beach to see Beautiful Faces, a stressed out when a lot of stuff happened here and all over the place. Why do you have them here? I am here for one main reason. Get reconnected and try to convey in a message to everybody in a way that we need to go back together and remember all the struggles they are ancestors went through. For us to be in the position that we are right now. Your ancestors and my ancestors went through hell. And they come back and they help us to go to a school to do beautiful things. So that way we can have these positions. So I know I'm not tell you what we need to do and how we need to do it, but let's go try to find a way for us to get together so that we weaken this stage, finding a way to put together the story. Up the continent. And a good. Great. So early and early. I was invited to do the ceremony outside and I was expecting to have a lot of upside in the ceremony. And for whatever reason, consulted. At first it was real brave to be in front and and be part of that ceremony. And when we do some of these activities, always we have a special gift that we give to people who help us. Same thing that you guys give and recognize. So when all you permit. If so, right. When you counsel Paris, I want to give you a gift. Coming down front. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Perhaps the council maybe can meet you for that gift. Thank you. Next speaker. Please. Good evening. I'm Kristie Castro. I'm a citizen of the Navajo Nation and the vice chairwoman of the Los Angeles City and county Native American Indian Commission. We celebrate a month ago, Los Angeles City, changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. We celebrated this morning in Los. Angeles County, replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. And I'm very excited to hear that. I think there's unanimous support for Indigenous Peoples Day being established in the city of Long Beach. So I really want to applaud your leadership. And I actually am going to ask you to continue to be leaders on behalf of indigenous peoples. The the change around indigenous peoples day is not just symbolic. Some people confuse it and say it's just a holiday. Why does it matter that? I just want to share a few reasons why there are real consequences about why why this holiday matters so much? We're protecting our children. As you know, the federal holiday still stands. The second Monday is critical because we are working to counter the negative images, stereotypes and false history that our children are subjected to during this time of the year. The American Psychological Association has come out against these racist aggressions based on a growing body of social science literature that shows. The harmful effects of racial. Stereotyping and inaccurate racial portrayals on the social identity and development of American Indian young people. Our young people suffer suicide. At 300. Times the national average, and we can't afford to continue to harm our youth. So establishing Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday of October will serve as an antidote to these negative messages. I can list a lot of other statistics that show how native peoples are continuously dehumanized in this country, whether it comes to sexual assaults against are women, poor, you know, educational outcomes because of a biased school system that doesn't teach our history. But I really appeal to you to continue to support indigenous peoples in issues. Absolutely. Thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. Wilhelmina Tucker. Yes. Thank you. Long Beach City Council for honoring this day. It's really special to me because I'm actually a Long Beach resident myself. I was born at Saint Mary's Hospital in Room 155. And I grew up in a small town which is called Mingus, which is on the outskirts of Long Beach, which is 90810 zip code. I always considered coming as being a part of Long Beach as my roots had established here long ago. My great grandmother, I mean, my grandmother actually owned one of the last houses on Locus, which, you know, and a building up a condominium right there. My grandmother, my mother and my sister used to work for the copper penny. A Brief History by myself. I'm a Lakota, Oglala Sioux, Muskogee Creek, Chicano of this nation. And my grandmother had a left elbow, fixed coat. She she was a narrator of a documentary called Wiping Tears of the Seventh Generation, which is my generation. And it's been prophesized that we would come back to show our strength, to show that we are still here, that we are still making a fight for our people and just not our people, but everybody who actually is living on this land because we honor them. We have sacredness to this land. And I thank you, all of you guys of whom you talk. Yes. Thank you for. Your time with 40 seconds to go. Next speaker, please. Good evening, members of the council. My name is Gail Werner and I'm a member. Of the KU. Panel LUSANE, you and Kumi that are small tribes that are located in north San Diego County. And I really appreciate that you are unanimously voting for. Indigenous Peoples Day because, well, in 1903 the Capilano ban was forcibly removed from their lands to a reservation at gunpoint. And I think that these are the kinds of histories that most people don't know, and that happened right here in Southern California. And I think that by taking this step that it. Helps to change that. And also. I've tried to live a positive life. I've moved here 35 years ago. I've been made my home here and I came up to CSU AB to do my MFA in In Art, my Master of Fine Arts. I've been a teacher. At Long Beach Unified School District for I was for about 20 years and I've been try to live a positive life for my all my relations in the from the past. Thank you it can we remain on. The topic of race and so. I'm just hoping that by doing this that will help make a more positive image for the past. And the. Present and future. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. Hello, counsel. And we're going to take a second. I know the time started, but I do want to take a sip of this water right here. I think really what I wanted to. Speak tonight, so I'm going to give her a chance. Oh, my God. Water is very good when it's clean, water is low. Excuse me. And thank you, counsel. I'm going to say across there, I grew up right here in the seventh District. My family has lived in Long Beach over 40 years now in this beautiful city. And this beautiful city, beautiful land. I love Long Beach. I went to high school, Danish Poly High. School, I went to UC Irvine and I got my degree there in political science. I got a degree there. And what I learned of that, I was pretty raw, actually. I learned to give back to your community, give back. Participate. That was what I learned out of. My poli sci experience. And so. I have been a musician. Locally and I perform for my city because I want. To give the energy of love. This is not my first time in this chamber. I've been here numerous times for numerous different issues. But today's a new day council. And tonight I'm here because this this issue has everything to do with my heart. This this indigenous peoples day is. As my sisters and my brothers said earlier, is not just about a hurrah for this one day. It's a symbol. It's a symbol of our indigenous roots on this land. Okay. And tonight, I speak beyond myself, beyond Navajo. I speak for our Earth. And as indigenous peoples, I offer as an indigenous person, I offer a solution because I've been here all night on my own most of this evening, and I've been listening to everything, these new developments in our city, which, you know, are very nice. And I see. Ma'am, I'm going to have to be fair, we're at the 2 minutes, but thank you for your time. We can conclude your statement. Thank you. I do appreciate it. That's true. I would have had a minute left, but it's okay. I'm just going to finish my thought there. I want to work with you to support honoring the sacredness of this land. I, as a political scientist, I feel that our community is spiritually malnourished. And you've seen that in this. Chamber with people. With a mental illness that is. In our inner city. My solution is. That spiritual connection. We revive the. Spiritual connection to the earth, and that has everything to do with our indigenous peoples who lived on this land and honored our land in that way. That spiritual connection has always been important. That's what we have to offer to you. I would love to work with all of you what you're doing. I see it's great. By. The people behind you, but thank you so much for your time. Thank you so much. Next speaker, please. Thank you to my sister. My name is Sandra Koster with protectors of Earth Mother. I am Chicana and that is Mescalero Apache Yaqui City on this North American continent we call Turtle Island. And I want to thank Councilmember Jeanine Pearce, who supported this when we brought this to you before you were sitting on this council. And thank you to Councilmember Superfone. Price and to Councilmember. Muranga for sharing your history tonight, because that's important. I'm declaring the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples Day is changing the universal consciousness for the better. My concern is a cultural genocide that continues to happen, as our sisters were saying, you know, in our schools, public spaces. And as a result, there are millions of Southern Indians who suffer from cultural amnesia. Many call themselves Hispanic and deny their indigenous heritage. I don't see illegal immigrants hustling in washing cars at the car wash. I see the original peoples of Turtle Island and they're in some of the poorest communities in this country. Our promise today and in the future is to make sure that the next generations know who they are and can seek strength in that. And it starts by first existing. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. I thank you, Mr. Mayor, and council members. This is my first time speaking at one of these events. I'm a local resident of Long Beach of the sixth District, also a student at Long Beach City College. I'm here today to ask you. I mean, it's. Already been decided. It's cool. Thank you so much. But. I do want to put an end to this whole notion of celebrating the genocide and the exploitation of native peoples. Not only here in. America, but throughout the world. And celebrating indigenous peoples day is a great way of doing that. From what I've heard earlier about the whole. Urban organic farming. That would be a great way of, you know, doing the whole indigenous part, because way before settlers came in from Europe, there was actually vast edible forests that the indigenous would just go around. Yeah, the whole point of a confederacy. Right. That was taken by the U.S. later on. Yeah. I'm just ranting right now, but thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker and Miss Christianson was was the last speaker and close the speakers list. I'm going to but I'm going to allow you, ma'am, to speak. But the absolute last speaker is a lady in the at the back of the line. That's it. Speaker's list is closed. Good afternoon. I'll try to be brief. I want to talk about what brought me here today. I'm an environmentalist. That is, I've made a commitment for the rest of my life to protecting the environment. I would like to live in a planet that is habitable for future generations. And as we all know, the planet is under threat. Life on Earth is under threat because of the destruction created by capitalism, created by occupation, genocide and imperialism. I wanted to mention something that I think is missing from the conversation of being an environmentalist, and that's that we are not only called to be protectors of the earth , but also to honor those who were the original caretakers of this land. To be an. Environmentalist, to. Me, means more than having a set of policies or voting a certain way. It means having. A. Relationship to our earth mother in the. I want us to acknowledge and have an open mind, open ears to listen to the. Indigenous. People and have an open heart to understand the pain of the Earth. Mother of the Earth is speaking out. She is asking, where were where are her original caretakers? She is asking us, where are the youth of the people whom she gave sacred languages to? I was speaking with a friend about why it is important to recognize indigenous rights as we do this work for the environment. And I want her to understand and I want all of us to understand that we will be we will create that future that we all want to see a sustainable future. But that will only happen if we know who we are, that we are the descendants of a people who once walked proudly upon this earth. If we acknowledge the history and the truth of this land, that is the only way we will reach a future that is sustainable. A future that we can all live in existence of peace. And that begins with acknowledging the truth. Thank you. Thank you, Speaker. Hard act to follow, Elliot. I just want to say, as the mother who raised her children in a Long Beach Unified School district and really tried to incorporate a very different understanding of treaties of the missions of. Colonization that this is a long day coming. And I also want to thank you guys for unanimously supporting this. I want to say that we were all indigenous once. You know, the content of our character. Like Martin Luther King said, it's the content of our character. And we were all indigenous once. And what does that mean? That means that somewhere back there and we all had the same ancestors, you know, and we were families. That's what tribes are, their families. I don't write that stuff in the paper when it says, Oh, they're getting tribal. Tribal is your family, it's your relatives. And in Lakota way, your relatives are all alive. You know, the rocks. The rocks are alive. So with that, I want to invite this council to a couple of things. I want Cheyenne ask me to make sure that you guys know about many went through this gathering. We're bringing it back. The Indian people are bringing it back up in Angels Gate Cultural Center. That's the 13th, I believe, through the 15th. And it's wonderful. The first Many Wonders gathering was in response to 500 years and peoples up there said the elders said, you know, John Fund Maker, you've heard George here speak his son. We're not going to talk about Columbus. We're going to honor our ancestors and we're going to teach many winters gathering. We're going to teach our youth. So I would also say that the messages of indigenous people are important. And the message from Rebecca Roberts, a hard to read, is Don't frack our wetlands. No oil development on wetlands. Please join us in a demonstration to defend the loss of those wetlands from beach oil company in Mineral Partners. 200 million oil bill adventure. Thank you so well quick. So I miss Christianson who was the last person on the speaker's list I left the lady coming up is the last person on the speakers list we ed next you gentlemen sir, the speakers list is already closed. So next item now? Nope. She's the last leader on the speaker's list. She's she's the last person on the speaker's list. Go ahead, ma'am. So I'm glad you all are. All in a majority for Indigenous Day. Gentlemen, gentlemen, we're going to let the lady speak. You guys, you guys could grab a seat. She's the last person on the speaker's list. Oh, I know. Thank you for that. Good to see you. Good to see you, as always. Absolutely. Go ahead, ma'am. You know you all. Forget that the. Workers, which majority minority. Built Long Beach to this international city that it is today. So I don't I don't really feel you need a comment because like the like people have said, your heritage runs Indian heritage runs through pretty much all of your you. I think you all should increase the time that the community gets to speak. 2 minutes. 3 minutes, 5 minutes. I mean, a comedian gets 5 minutes, you give the community 2 minutes. You all only value this community, so called community, because I don't think you all know what it is when you all need our votes, when we need you to stand up for each individual district and do your jobs. You all don't show up. The only time you show up is for the stakeholders and the business people of this community, of which working people, people of color, build the businesses in this community. So I don't believe you all need a congratulation for doing the right thing and one day is not enough to celebrate Indigenous people. The original people of this land. So I would ask that you extend it to a three day weekend the way you have all these other celebrations or festivals or all this going on in and this international city of Long Beach. And I'm talking to you. You and you especially. You know your neighborhoods. They are atrocious. Thank you. One of the simplest things. Thank you, ma'am. That makes me know that you all are still. Thank you, ma'am. Time is up, Bill. Thank you. Slaves on the plantation. I like my neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. So we're now going to go ahead and take a vote. Members, she's going to cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. And to everyone that came out. Congratulations. Of course. It's obviously a big win for Long Beach and we look forward to celebrating every single year. So congratulations to all of you. We'll move on with the regular agenda. Thank you. Hey, next up is we're going to move on to item number 41.