The mission of Cultural Enrichment Committee is to recognize and uplift our minority students by developing and sustaining a welcoming campus culture through events that allow for self-representation, greater visibility, and inclusion.
Fall SemesterThe Cultural Enrichment Committee begins each meeting session by reading the following land acknowledgment. Please feel free to use this acknowledgment in any of your meetings as well.
For millennia, Indigenous Peoples of the Southern Central Sierra Me-Wuk have honored, protected, and stewarded this land we cherish. We acknowledge the land on which we stand is the unceded traditional home of the Central Sierra Me-Wuk Peoples including local sovereign Tribal Nations such as the Tuolumne band of Me-Wuk Indians, the Chicken Ranch Rancheria Me-Wuk Indians of California, the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation, the Jackson Rancheria Band of Miwuk Indians, the Ione Band of Miwok Indians, the California Valley Miwok Tribe, and other California Indian and Indigenous Peoples who now live here.
We recognize the years of ill-conceived policies, and the breaking of sacred covenants in regard to Native Peoples.
In order to bring healing to the land, we acknowledge the wrongs in our history against Native Peoples and commit to honoring them and building positive relationships to move toward a brighter future where all peoples of this land live reconciled as interdependent stewards.
