{"id":11627,"date":"2026-02-05T21:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=11627"},"modified":"2026-02-05T21:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:32:59","slug":"native-american-tribe-responds-to-billie-eilish-comments-about-stolen-land-at-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=11627","title":{"rendered":"Native American tribe responds to Billie Eilish comments about \u2018stolen land\u2019 at t"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Billie Eilish\u2019s Grammy speech was designed to shock: a defiant \u201cF** ICE\u201d and the claim that \u201cno one is illegal on stolen land\u201d electrified the Crypto.com Arena and social media. But away from the roar of the crowd, the people whose land she invoked stepped forward. The Tongva, Indigenous to the Los Angeles Basin, publicly noted that Eilish\u2019s Southern California home sits on their ancestral territory\u2014and that she has never contacted them about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their response was measured but unmistakably sharp. They welcomed visibility for the \u201ctrue history of this country,\u201d yet urged that future statements name the Gabrieleno Tongva directly, so the public understands LA is still their land. At the same time, they praised their close partnership with the Recording Academy, which worked with them on official land acknowledgments during Grammy week. As politicians mocked Eilish\u2019s stance and demanded she \u201cforfeit\u201d her mansion, the tribe simply asserted: \u201cEkwa Shem \u2013 We are here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Eilish\u2019s Grammy speech was designed to shock: a defiant \u201cF** ICE\u201d and the claim that \u201cno one is illegal on stolen land\u201d electrified the Crypto.com Arena and social media. But away from the roar of the crowd, the people whose land she invoked stepped forward. The Tongva, Indigenous to the Los Angeles Basin, publicly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":11628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}