{"id":683669,"date":"2021-08-25T15:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=683669"},"modified":"2021-08-25T15:36:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:36:26","slug":"ca-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-replace-toppled-statue-of-catholic-saint-with-native-american-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ca-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-replace-toppled-statue-of-catholic-saint-with-native-american-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"CA Lawmakers Advance Bill To Replace Toppled Statue Of Catholic Saint With Native American Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fca-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-replace-toppled-statue-of-catholic-saint-with-native-american-monument%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=683669&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Serra-Sacramento.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The California State Senate voted 28-2 on Monday to send a bill to Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s desk to replace a toppled statue of the first saint canonized on U.S. soil that once stood outside the state Capitol with a Native American monument.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Bee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article253712713.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">reported<\/a>, Assembly Bill 338 (AB 338) \u201cremoves the statutory requirement for the Capitol to maintain a statue of Father Junipero Serra, and replaces it with a mandate to install a work of art that commemorates the indigenous people on whose land California sits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state Assembly had passed the measure in May with a 66-2 vote.<\/p>\n<p>Serra founded the California mission system in the late 18<sup>th<\/sup> century. Historians say the 21 missions along the state\u2019s coast were set up to convert indigenous people to Catholicism, expand European territory, and colonize the land.<\/p>\n<p>Serra\u2019s critics, however, believe the missions were a form of institutional racial oppression that wiped out customs and culture. They say natives were forced to perform labor for the missions, thereby propping up a new system of white supremacy that kept them oppressed.<\/p>\n<p>On July 4, 2020, about 200 demonstrators celebrated Independence Day by toppling the statue of Serra in Capitol Park, where it had stood since 1967. The video showed vandals scorching the sculpture before using straps to pull it down. Protesters advocating for the Black Lives Matter movement following the police killing of George Floyd had converged with another group that was there demanding the removal of a Christopher Columbus statue nearby.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Protesters tear down Junipero Serra statue in Sacramento, CHP says\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vnry4ola06M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Assemblyman James Ramos, a Democrat from Highland, <a href=\"https:\/\/a40.asmdc.org\/press-releases\/20210128-ramos-introduces-bill-replace-toppled-serra-statue-capitol\">said<\/a> he authored the bill to \u201cbegin the fuller and more honest assessment of what the Mission period meant to California\u2019s Native Americans. He is the first California Native American elected to the Legislature. Co-sponsors include six Indian tribes in the Sacramento region: Wilton Rancheria; Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians, Ione Band of Miwok Indians; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, and the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not condone the vandalism that resulted in the toppling of the Serra statue last summer, but it did provide an opportunity for us to explore why this figure from California\u2019s founding has become a symbol of the enslavement and genocide for Native Americans,\u201d Ramos said in a statement following the bill\u2019s passage. \u201cHe is undoubtedly seen as the creator and director of a system that held Indians in servitude to force conversions and build the missions, and that led to starvation and disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Gov. Newsom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2019\/06\/18\/governor-newsom-issues-apology-to-native-americans-for-states-historical-wrongdoings-establishes-truth-and-healing-council\/\">issued an apology<\/a> to California Native Americans through executive order for the \u201cstate\u2019s historical wrongdoings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia must reckon with our dark history,\u201d Newsom said at the time. \u201cCalifornia Native American peoples suffered violence, discrimination, and exploitation sanctioned by state government throughout its history. We can never undo the wrongs inflicted on the peoples who have lived on this land that we now call California since time immemorial, but we can work together to build bridges, tell the truth about our past and begin to heal deep wounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-catholic-statues-and-sites-attacked-by-activists-and-how-elected-leaders-responded\">The Catholic Statues And Sites Attacked By Activists, And How Elected Leaders Responded<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/homeless-man-accused-of-setting-249-year-old-san-gabriel-mission-on-fire-pleads-not-guilty\">Homeless Man Accused Of Setting 249-Year-Old San Gabriel Mission On Fire Pleads Not Guilty<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California State Senate voted 28-2 on Monday to send a bill to Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s desk to replace a toppled statue of the first saint canonized on U.S. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}