BILL NUMBER: AJR 48 CHAPTERED 09/22/93 BILL TEXT RESOLUTION CHAPTER 121 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 22, 1993 ADOPTED IN SENATE SEPTEMBER 11, 1993 ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 26, 1993 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Members Morrow and Conroy (Coauthors: Senators Bergeson, Craven, and Lewis) AUGUST 19, 1993 Assembly Joint Resolution No. 48 Relative to the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AJR 48, Morrow. Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation. This measure memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to declare the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation, to be the aboriginal tribe of Orange County. WHEREAS, The Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation, whose villages were spread out over their aboriginal territory, throughout Orange County, from the Pacific Ocean to the West, to parts of Los Angeles County to the North, to parts of Riverside County to the East, and to parts of Camp Pendleton to the South; and WHEREAS, Archeological reports through carbon dating have shown the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation, to be in existence dating back 10,000 years in Orange County; and WHEREAS, The Juaneno Band of Mission Indians were known as the Acjachemen Nation long before the expansion of the Spanish Empire in 1769 into their ancestral homeland, usurping their lands, their religion, and adversely affecting the well-being of their people; and WHEREAS, The documented descendants of the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation, whose ancestors were baptized at the Mission San Juan Capistrano consist of over 4,500 tribal members registered with the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and WHEREAS, Conservatively over 7,000 Juanenos have continued to live in and around Orange County and the Mission San Juan Capistrano; and WHEREAS, By an error of an Indian agent in not reporting the Juaneno Band of Mission Indian's, Acjachemen Nation, existence in the 1880's, the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation, were removed from the records in Washington, D.C.; and WHEREAS, Without being informed or consulted, the Juaneno Band of Mission Indian's, Acjachemen Nation, official existence was terminated; and WHEREAS, The Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation, exercising great patience, with continued hope and through their own funding and means have toiled to regain recognition of the existence of their tribe for over 30 years through the Bureau of Indian Affairs-Federal Recognition Processing; and WHEREAS, Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation, is recognized as the aboriginal tribe of Orange County by the Tribal Chairmen's Association of Recognized Tribes; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of California, jointly, That the Legislature of the State of California respectfully memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to support and declare that the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation, to be the aboriginal tribe of Orange County; and be it further Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the United States.