AB 1703 passed in 2022 in California to establish the California Indian Education Act and encourages school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to form California Indian Education Task Forces with California tribes local to their regions or tribes historically located in the region, in order to develop model curricula related to Native American studies.

Missions disrupted Native American families and prevented family formation and transmission of cultural knowledge.

The “x” is used to disrupt the often rigid gender binarist approach to telling history.