Recommendation to adopt resolution recognizing the second Monday of each October as Indigenous Peoples Day.
Motion carries. The term 30. Communication from City Attorney Recommendation to adopt resolution recognizing the second Monday of each October as Indigenous People Day. I know I have to. You don't have to. Okay. There's a motion in a second. Public comment. Please come forward. Thank you for this time. Good evening, everybody. Thank you for listening this long. First of all, I'd like to wish everyone a Happy National Coming Out Day, which is in about an hour and a half. I'm 28 and never going back. I've been deeply conflicted about whether or not I should speak to this. Certainly last time. Last week it was time for a white lady to get up and discuss this issue. And I hope you're going to find my story kind of interesting. I wasn't sure what I should do then. One of the indigenous women who did come on stage, everybody last week walked up to me at the start of the meeting tonight and handed me this unbelievable bone artifact. Which obviously is a talisman. And I took it as. An omen to go ahead with my very short presentation. I usually talk about you, but tonight I want to tell you something about me. I grew up in a very privileged house decorated with Barry Goldwater glasses and John Birch documents. My only counterpoint was my Uncle Bill, who rode. In the cavalry against Hitler, lost half of his hand. He died in 2011, leaving me his documents, his Purple Heart, his favorite cap, and his papers. It was then I discovered the bigotry of my family that kept me from even knowing that my great grandmother was Potawatomi. Her name was Eulalia, and she was bought with fur pelts by my great grandfather, a French trapper. I have traced down their marriage license to 1868. They had ten children, the youngest of which was my grandmother. Many Potawatomi girls were sold to trappers, and since the villages were set on fire. I believe that possibly she had a safer outcome. But the invisibility that the bigotry of my family forced on me would not have happened. Hopefully in years to come, where we have Indigenous Peoples Day. There are a lot of people don't even understand what these original landowners have done for us. And finally, let me point out to you, you might find this interesting. I hope you do. But actually it was the Quaker women. At Seneca Falls who brought forward the 19th. Amendment. They were educated by the Iroquois. They had become friends with the. Iroquois who were not using labor. Divided by. Gender, but rather by skill and. Size and capability. So we I'm one to congratulate you. I'm here to thank you. I know that had a nuclear meltdown about an hour ago, but every now and then, I rise to say thank you very much for everything. You do for the city of Long Beach. I'm just so proud to be a member of this city. Thank you. Thank you. That was not a nuclear meltdown. So we've seen we have seen plenty of those. Thank you very much. That concludes the. I'm sorry. It does not include one vote. No, the public comment. And we need to cast their votes.