California Arts Advocates, California’s statewide arts advocacy organization, is pleased to offer our support for AB 1968 the Tribal Land Acknowledgment of 2021. Existing law, the California Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 2001, requires all agencies and museums that receive state funding and have possession or control over collections of California Native American human remains and associated funerary objects to inventory those remains and objects for repatriation to the appropriate tribes, as specified.
Read MoreGovernor Gavin Newsom submits his 2020-21 budget proposal to the Legislature to include a one-time $10 million increased general fund allocation for the California Arts Council, California's state arts agency. According to the Governor's budget proposal, the following provisions are proposed to be expended or encumbered over a three-year period…
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