Southwestern College's decision to allow members of the Kumeyaay Nation to use its facilities rent-free left some people wondering if the action violated a law against preferential treatment based on race.
, the Affirmative Action Initiative of 1996, which prohibited the state from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment “on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, and public contracting.”
“Tribes do constitute their own ethnic group, but also are, more important, a political group,” she said about the distinction in this case. Indians also are the only specific group mentioned in the Constitution, and Chilcote said the special recognition that continues today stems from the many treaties that were created between the government and tribes.
The action was the latest in the college’s efforts to reach out to the local indigenous community. Since last year, public meetings at the school have begun with a reading of an acknowledgement that each of the school’s five campuses sit on Kumeyaay ancestral land.
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