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Please join me in this opportunity
to stand up for

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and give voice to the unceded lands
and waters

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of the Salinan people and acknowledge
their tribal sovereignty.

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I ask you to join me in acknowledging
their Salinan communities,

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their elders past, present, and future,

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for they hold the knowledge
and stories of this place.

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These lands and waters were founded
upon exclusions and erasures of many

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Indigenous people, including the Salinan
people, whose waters this vessel,

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the Okeanos Explorer, sits upon today.

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In spite of all that has happened
in the past, each tribe, council,

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clan, and band is working hard to restore
traditional stewardship practices

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and relationships on their lands
and heal from this historical trauma.

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Together as a community,
we can acknowledge the mistakes

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and atrocities of the past, move forward

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in remembrance and relationship
with local Salinan communities

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and Indigenous peoples
to begin the process of healing

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by making sure that the processes here
and everywhere we are

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make room for all Indigenous voices
to be heard,

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their traditional knowledge
of these territories be listened to,

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and their people to be a part
of the healing of these lands,

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as well as themselves.
As tribal neighbors,

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our territories are not firm lines,
but rather

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a blending of edges
where we have shared territories,

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especially here,
in the Morro Bay, Big Sur area.

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There was a large swath
of shared territory,

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which means not only did they share lands

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but resources,
some customs, and even families.

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This acknowledgment

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is a call to action
to all to begin the process

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of creating a relationship
with your local Indigenous communities

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and to work to dismantle the ongoing

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legacies of settler colonialism.

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Thank you.