Resolution 1993-23
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RESOLUTION NO. 93 - 23
RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GILROY ACKNOWLEDGING THE OHLONE/COSTANOAN
TRIBES.
WHEREAS, The Amah-Mutsun Tribe of Oh10ne/Costanoan Indians of the Monterey,
San Benito, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Mateo and San Francisco constitute the
surviving documented aboriginal Native American lineages of this region; and
WHEREAS, the distribution of the Amah-Mutsun Ohlone speaking groups occupied
portions of Ohlone/Costanoan Territory; and
WHEREAS, some of the ancestors of the Amah Mutsun Ohlone Tribal groups were
removed from their aboriginal lands and brought into seven of the twenty-one
missions; and
WHEREAS, as a result of the impact upon the lives and lifeways of the Amah-
Mutsun Ohlone people by the expanding Spanish Empire, the Missions and later
American conquest, it was once pronounced by members of the dominant society that
these aboriginal people were extinct; and
WHEREAS, The Amah Mutsun Ohlone Tribe has refused to accept this sentence of
extinction, and has demonstrated their cultural heritage, Native American identity
and biological continuity by maintaining a rich oral tradition, supported their
historical research documenting themselves as the aboriginal inhabitants of the
Monterey Bay and interior areas, through San Juan Bautista, Santa Cruz, Santa
Clara, Monterey, San Mateo and mission records, the enthnographic field work of J,
P. Harrington (192l-l939 Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian) and Bureau of
Indian affairs (e.g. the 1928 California Jurisdictional Act enrollment, and other
documents); and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Gilroy strongly support and
recognize the Amah-Mutsun Ohlone Indian Tribe, and also supports the efforts of all
other Native California aboriginal tribal groups as well as other Native American
aboriginal groups, especially in the year of Indigenous People and following the
Year of the Quincentennial Celebration; to be formally recognized and acknowledged
by the United States of America.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the City Council of the City of Gilroy
does hereby acknowledge, commend and fully support the Amah-Mutsun Ohlone Tribe
(Amah Tribal Band) and other California tribes, bands, nations in their effort to
obtain formal recognition at the Federal level and by the United States Congress.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3rd day of May, 1993, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: GILROY, HALE, KLOECKER, NELSON, ROWLISON , VALDEZ
and GAGE.
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT:COUNCILMEMBERS: None
APPROVED:
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RESOLUTION NO. 93 - 23
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I, SUSANNE E. STEINMETZ, City Clerk of the City of Gilroy, do
hereby certify that the attached Resolution No. 93-23 is an original
resolution, duly adopted by the Council of the City of Gilroy at a regular
meeting of said Council held on the 3td day of May 19 93
, at which meeting a quorum was present.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
Official Seal of the City of Gilroy this ~ day of May ,1993.
(Seal)