Official City of Sacramento Land Acknowledgement and Pledge of Allegiance
On December 14, 2021, City Council adopted Resolution No. 2021-0368 establishing an official City of Sacramento Land Acknowledgement to be read aloud at the beginning of every meeting of the Sacramento City Council and its subsidiary committees, boards, and bodies (i.e., City Council standing committees, City Council ad hoc committees, and City of Sacramento boards, commissions, and committees), as well as the Financing Authority, Housing Authority, Public Financing Authority, and Redevelopment Agency Successor Agency.
A land Acknowledgement is a formal statement, a public recognition, of the Indigenous Peoples who have been dispossessed and displaced from their ancestral homelands and territories due to a variety of colonial and historical reasons. This statement acknowledges that an organization, a city, a park, or any other structure was built, and operates, on Indigenous Peoples’ ancestral homelands.
Official City of Sacramento Land Acknowledgement
Please rise for the opening acknowledgements in honor of Sacramento’s Indigenous People and Tribal Lands.
To the original people of this land.
The Nisenan people, The Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains Miwok, Patwin Wintun peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento’s only Federally recognized Tribe.
May we acknowledge and honor the Native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento’s Indigenous People’s history, contributions, and lives.
Thank you.
Phonetic Spelling
Nisenan (Nee-se-non) - Maidu (My-do) - Miwok (Mee-wok) - Patwin Wintun (Putt-win Win-toon)
Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance, to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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