Acknowledgements
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that Mt. San Antonio College serves students and the community on the unceded ancestral homeland of indigenous peoples, including the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples. This land remains inseparable from its aboriginal stewards. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland, and we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the Gabrielino/Tongva. We remain grateful for the rich culture, languages, contributions, and heritage of the First Nation peoples who lived here and loved here, who raised their families here, who cared for land and life here, who are buried in many marked and unmarked places here, and who remain here despite acts of genocide, assimilation, and forced removal. Let us honor them, this land, and all life in our thoughts, words, and actions in this place.
Student Acknowledgement
Thank you to Mecha de Mt. SAC, Mechistas, Alejandro Juarez and Fabian Pavon, and other student activists who in 2016, and after, took the bold steps to push our community for the development of an Ethnic Studies department and other student-centered resources at Mt. San Antonio College. The fruit of your labor is here, and with the passage of California Bill AB1460, we are excited to develop this department in a way that honors our students' resistance, histories, heritage, voices, experiences, and cultural identities.
