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Committee discusses activating land acknowledgment; member suggests exploring Shuumi land tax at future meeting
Summary
During public comment, a committee member proposed discussing a Shuumi land tax or similar payments to local indigenous groups as a follow-up to the meeting’s land acknowledgment. The committee agreed to add the topic to a future agenda for discussion rather than take immediate action.
After a group land acknowledgment at the start of the July 9 meeting, committee member Jim Becker asked whether the group would be open to a future conversation about “activating” that acknowledgment by paying a Shuumi land tax or directing funds to a local indigenous land trust.
Committee staff responded that the suggestion could be added…
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