Bill Text: CA ACR55 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Highway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 135, Statutes of 2013. [ACR55 Detail]

Download: California-2013-ACR55-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 55	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  135
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 8, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Stone and Alejo

                        APRIL 30, 2013

   Relative to the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 55, Stone. Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Highway.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway
Route 68, in the County of Monterey, as the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen
Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation
to determine the cost for appropriate signs showing this special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
covering that cost, to erect those signs.



   WHEREAS, The Esselen people have been indigenous to the Greater
Monterey County area for more than 10,000 years and from their known
ancestral tribal villages from the coast and inland, the Esselen
people hunted, traded, and lived peacefully together, and are known
today as the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation; and
   WHEREAS, The Esselen people lived from Big Sur on the Pacific
Coast to the Pajaro River to Fremont Peak to Salinas and the
Pinnacles caves, across the fertile valley to Arroyo Seco, up to
Monterey, Carmel, and back to Big Sur, where they built a vibrant,
healthy, and culturally rich society; and
   WHEREAS, For generations, their ancestors maintained strong family
and kinship ties through tribal and family gatherings, weddings,
baptisms, funerals, and other family events. Their cultural ties have
bound their tribe and families for generation after generation; and
   WHEREAS, Since the arrival of Europeans, California Indians have
endured a long and well-documented history of change forced by
assimilation and discrimination; and
   WHEREAS, The Esselen people were forced from their ancestral lands
and into starvation and illness; to survive they hid in local
mountains and canyons known today as Palo Colorado, Ventana
Wilderness, Arroyo Seco, Tassajara, Pinnacles, Chualar Canyon,
Prunedale Canyon, Corral de Tierra, Fort Ord, Santa Lucia, and El
Portero; and
   WHEREAS, In 1883, the Esselen people were formally recognized by
Special Agents Helen Hunt Jackson and Abbott Kinney of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, and in 1906 were placed under the jurisdiction of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C., and became known as the
Monterey Band of Monterey County specifically identifying Tom Santos
Miranda and his family; and
   WHEREAS, Frequent communication was vital to tribal society.
Esselen ancestors developed roads by following deer trails and creek
beds from coastal villages to inland villages and families and their
most used route is known today as State Highway Route 68; and
   WHEREAS; State Highway Route 68 was later used by Spaniards, Padre
Junipero Serra, the Juan DeAnza Expedition, Los Californios, and
most recently by tourists traveling from mission to mission, or to
the Pebble Beach Golf Course, the racetrack located at Laguna Seca,
and Fort Ord; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates that
portion of State Highway Route 68 between Blanco Road in the City of
Salinas and Anza Drive in the County of Monterey as the Ohlone
Costanoan Esselen Highway; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of erecting the appropriate signs, consistent with
the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing this
special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those signs; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.