Good morning and welcome to Bonjina Report Early Edition.

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We gather in celebration of the Oscars on the ancestral lands of the Tongva, Tatavium and Chumash peoples,

the traditional caretakers of this water and land.

We honor and pay our respects to indigenous communities here and around the world.

Predictably, last night, opened up with, at the Oscars, opened up with a land acknowledgement.

And what's interesting is that the Tongva, the tribe that they are referring to, likely

descended from peoples who migrated into Southern California around 3,500 years ago,

entering a region already inhabited by earlier native groups, which had been there

possibly over 10,000 years before them.

And this replacement very well may have been the result of a violent displacement.

And that's kind of the history of Native Americans.

It's actually kind of the history of the world, of humanity in general.

But natives as well, the Iroquois Confederacy,

waged genocidal warfare against the Great Lakes tribes.

The Comanchee displaced the Apache groups,

Lakota Sioux, displaced tribes from the Cheyenne,

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