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The Voice of Tribal Child Care in California!
Cultural Humility
Tribal Child Care Association of California
Cultural Humility
TCCAC offers a Cultural Humility Pathway through our Workforce Program, available to both participants and non-participants. These trainings cover the accurate history of Native Americans, the historical trauma they faced, and their ongoing presence and contributions. The sessions include examples of tribal resilience, medicine, storytelling, culture, and anti-bias/anti-racism. Offered in partnership with Suscol Intertribal Council, another cohort will be available in the 2024/2025 program year. Join to learn about California’s history, colonization, trauma, and healing through traditional cultural practices.
For more information contact Sara Zapata, Workforce Advisor, workforce@tribalchildcareca.org
Culturally Responsive
Cultural Humility Training
The TCCAC Cultural Humility Training, led by Charlie Toledo and Sal Garcia, aims to educate on the history, culture, and experiences of Native Americans in California. The training includes an overview of the impact of European invasions, the importance of language preservation, and the integration of Native American perspectives into education. It also emphasizes the resilience and ongoing efforts of Native communities to preserve their heritage, advocate for accurate representation, and foster understanding and respect among diverse populations.
Land Acknowledgement
The Tribal Child Care Association of California is honored to present this land acknowledgement. We understand and acknowledge our place on Native lands and are mindful of the past and present participation in colonial legacies. As an association comprised of Tribal members and representatives that partners with more than 80 Native American Tribes in California, we stand in solidarity with all indigenous communities and strive for cultural consciousness, respect indigenous practices, and take responsibility to amplify indigenous voices.
We acknowledge the pre-contact indigenous population in California as one of the largest and most diverse in the western hemisphere that spoke over 300 Native American dialects and as many as 90 languages.
We acknowledge that the culture and heritage of the entire state rests with the indigenous people who have continuously lived upon this land since time immemorial. We recognize the historic discrimination and violence inflicted upon indigenous peoples in California and the Americas, including their forced removal from ancestral lands, and the deliberate and systematic destruction of their communities and culture. We recognize how policies, systems, and structures continue to oppress and erase indigenous peoples and their ability to remain in tribal communities on tribal lands and continue traditional practices with their tribes even today.
There are currently over 100 federally recognized Native American tribes in California and even more communities and tribal groups, who are not currently federally recognized. California has the highest Native American population in the country, and Los Angeles and San Francisco have two of the largest urban Native American populations in the United States. We make it our mission to support these resilient and resourceful communities by raising the voice of tribal nations to support equitable approaches for social services, policies, and practices through building relationships founded on greater consciousness of Native sovereignty and cultural rights.
Tell Your Story
The TCCAC Culture Committee is asking all California Tribes to join together to support equity in early learning and care for Tribal communities through your voice and your stories! The Culture Committee is working on creating a series of videos highlighting California Tribal culture and traditions. These videos will be used to raise the voices of CA Tribal communities, create understanding with communities outside of our own and promote cultural competencies. In order to accomplish these goals it is imperative that we all work together and contribute to this amazing project.
This TCCAC and Culture Committee endeavor will continue the vision of Project HOPE CA. Project HOPE CA is an initiative in partnership with the TCCAC, California Department of California, Early Learning and Care Division, with the support of BUILD and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funding, with a focus on harnessing opportunity for positive equitable early childhood development. The Culture Committee is seeking your story to be featured as part of the broader picture of Tribes throughout California. We want to showcase as many Tribal child care cultures as we can. Please watch the following video for more information on this project and how you can be a part of it!
TCCAC Culture Committee, Board of Directors and the CA Project HOPE team, would like to thank you for your support and your willingness to lend your voice to an important project to enhance opportunities and equitable outcomes for Tribal Child Care and Early Learning in CA.
We need your help! If you are willing to share your stories you can contact us at TCCAC and we can arrange a time for you to meet with our videographer and film consultant team. Please contact Jennifer McGowan, TCCAC Operations Director at jmcgowan@tribalchildcareca.org or Kim Nall, TCCAC Co-Chair at knall@tribalchildcareca.org for more information.
OR you can also share videos telling your story and/or photos here: