Friends,

This week, many in California will celebrate a holiday shaped by a history most were never taught honestly.

Anyone who looks at so-called Thanksgiving with a sound heart understands why this is day for mourning, not celebration. The true story is one of conquest, broken treaties, and the theft of an entire continent.

No celebration can hide that this holiday exists because whole nations were systematically eradicated, and those who remain still confront a government that wields the power to decide who may remain on their own lands.

Our movement understands that genocide continues for Indigenous peoples through ongoing land seizures, carceral violence, resource exploitation, and state control over ancestral territories.

And our movement is the only one in this race committed to the Indigenous land-back movement, in spirit and in practice.

We do so because justice demands it, and because this state has suffered under management dictated by corporate extraction for too long.

Oil fields, poisoned aquifers, scarred forests, collapsing fisheries, longer fire seasons, and entire communities sacrificed for corporate profit reveal how deeply the two-party system has failed to protect the land it claims to steward.

Help us continue building the only campaign for Governor dedicated to returning land, restoring authority to Indigenous nations, and transforming California into a state where care for the earth is the measure of leadership.

As governor, and as part of a Green Party tradition that unites climate justice with human rights, I will forge a different path.

Indigenous nations will guide how we shape county-level leadership so environmental care, emergency preparation, and land stewardship reflect their knowledge and priorities.

Together, we will build shared frameworks for conservation, water protection, wildfire response, and the safeguarding of sacred places.

Co-governance will grow from Indigenous leadership, with the state following their direction in ecological renewal.

And we will establish public funds that support land return, cultural restoration, and economic sovereignty without demanding assimilation into exploitative systems.

We cannot change what came before, but we can choose the work of repair.

Our movement is stepping forward with a vision that honors the communities who have carried the truth through centuries of state and federal power aimed at erasure.

Peace and Power,

Butch Ware

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