 I want to thank you for those of you who did attend the ceremony. It was a beautiful experience. That was my first opportunity to invite different leaders around the world and around our country to come and open the space up for us. You know, to look at this, I want to thank all of you, I want to thank all of you, I want to thank all of you, I want to thank all of you, and open the space up for us. You know, to lead us and take good steps forward and take good steps and good actions and steps to making our world a better place to live for future generations, our children's generation, their children's generation. It's important because we all live on Mother Earth together and we should treat it as such. I'd like to start with our land acknowledgement. We would like to recognize that while we come together for SoCAP 2023, we are gathered within the ethno-historic territory of the Yalamu, Aramae, Sasun, Lanshin, Ramayatush San Francisco, Kostanoan, Kostanoan Aloni-speaking groups, tribal groups of the San Francisco Peninsula, who were intermarried with the Puchun, Thamian, Aloni-speaking tribal groups of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, who were also intermarried with the East Bay, Karkin, Harkin, Irgin, and Tubin, Kasun, Chochenyo, Aloni-speaking tribal groups of the Alameda counties and Contra Costa counties. These are the direct ancestors of the lineages enrolled in the Muwekma-Aloni tribe, whom were missionized into Mission San Francisco, Santa Clara, and San Jose. This greater Bay Area region, this Aboriginal territory includes the ancestral legally unceded lands of the ancestors of the Muwekma-Aloni tribe, who are the successors of the historic sovereign federally recognized Verona Band of the Alameda county. It is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the land on which we reside, but also acknowledge the Muwekma-Aloni peoples are alive and flourishing members within the greater San Francisco Bay Area and broader communities today. This land was and continues to be of great significance to the Muwekma-Aloni people and other familial descendants. We recognize that every citizen residing within the greater Bay Area has and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the tribe's Aboriginal land, since the founding of the city of San Francisco in 1776. While our Aboriginal lands have become home to some of the wealthiest companies in human history, our people whose ancestors have continuously occupied these lands for over 10,000 years continues to suffer from gentrification. We have been, we ask ourselves and ask the greater communities how are we to remain on our homeland with affordable, unaffordable housing, less-deliving increases, unfriendly policies and the lack of federal recognition. If you are interested in sharing or knowing more about the Muwekma, please come and find me and share your networks and knowledge and become an advocate for our Muwekma-Aloni people. So please go to our website, Muwekma.org for more information about our struggles for federal recognition, our struggles for repatriation and our struggles to stay on our 10,000-year-old homeland. We respectfully request that everyone who lives, works or visits the city and county of San Francisco and surrounding towns to be respectful of our Aboriginal lands and natural habitats and consistent with our principles of community, diversity and inclusion, strive to be good citizens on behalf of the Muwekma-Aloni people. I also want to bring to our attention the plight and struggles of all our Indigenous brothers and sisters around the world and ask the Great Spirit to bring peace and bring justice for all peoples. We see the horrific events in Palestine and Israel unfolding in real time. How can it, how can it not remind us, us Indigenous people of our own brutal history of colonization and genocide? We Native Americans understand more than most the effects of what is happening in front of our very eyes. Our own people still struggle with generational trauma from the past atrocities committed against our ancestors. There are about 400 million Indigenous people around the world today in over 90 countries. But wherever they live, Indigenous peoples are among the poorest and most marginalized communities in their societies. If we are to continue to hold the moral high ground, we leaders around the world, we leaders in Indian country must not sit silently while the world's Indigenous continue to struggle to be free. In the words of Martin Luther King, no one is free until we are all free. Thank you. And again, on behalf of the Muwekma Ohlone tribe, we hope you celebrate, honor, and stand in solidarity with all Muwekmas. Muwekma means the people, la gente, in our Chochenyo language. Indigenous tribal communities where their struggles, where the struggles to reverse the adverse colonial legacy suffering affecting all people of color in the greater Bay Area, California, America's, and around the world. We gather and reflect on our sacred land of the ancestral and historic Muwekma Ohlone tribe, Ho.