Much of Sacramento, including Land Park, is built on the tribal land of the Nisenan people.

Their legacy is visible in our built environment: For example, the Old City Cemetery, located on Broadway across from Target, sits on a Nisenan town called Sama. This site is elevated because they built it up to avoid flooding (source). The Nisenan, also known as Southern Maidu, lived in the area that is now Sacramento for thousands of years before colonization and genocide.

Today, the Nisenan are working to regain their federal tribal recognition. It was terminated in by the federal government in 1958, along with 37 other Rancherias (similar to reservations).

Twenty seven of those have been restored – but the Nevada City Rancheria of the Nisenan people is not one of them. Learn more about this history from Vice (“The California Tribe the Government Tried to Erase in the 60s”) and support the Nevada City Rancheria’s campaign for sovereignty (Nevada City Rancheria.)

Learn more about the Native land you live on:
https://native-land.ca/

Learn more about Native land acknowledgement: https://usdac.us/nativeland

Support the Nevada City Rancheria’s campaign for sovereignty: https://www.nevadacityrancheria.org/

Learn more about the Nisenan:
https://nisenan.org/

This poster is designed using the Martin typeface from Vocal Type, inspired by posters from the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968. It’s printed on white Kraft-Tone French Paper, which has manufactured paper for more than 140 years in Niles, Michigan.

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