{"id":1703,"date":"2026-02-05T15:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:41:46","slug":"native-american-tribe-responds-to-billie-eilish-comments-about-stolen-land-at-the-grammys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":"Native American tribe responds to Billie Eilish comments about \u2018stolen land\u2019 at the Grammys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Billie Eilish\u2019s fiery \u201cstolen land\u201d speech drew cheers in the Crypto.com Arena, it quietly landed on the doorstep of the people whose land she invoked. The Tongva, First People of the Los Angeles Basin, responded with a mix of grace and unmistakable challenge: yes, they appreciated her visibility for Indigenous history \u2013 but they also reminded the world that her Southern California home stands on their ancestral territory, and that she has never contacted them directly.<\/p>\n<p>Their statement cut through the political noise that followed, from Ron DeSantis\u2019 mockery to calls for celebrities to \u201cgive back their land.\u201d The Tongva didn\u2019t demand her mansion. Instead, they asked for something harder to ignore: explicit recognition, real relationships, and a future where their name is spoken as easily as any pop star\u2019s. Partnering with the Recording Academy on land acknowledgments, they closed with a declaration that underlines the stakes: \u201cEkwa Shem \u2013 We are here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Billie Eilish\u2019s fiery \u201cstolen land\u201d speech drew cheers in the Crypto.com Arena, it quietly landed on the doorstep of the people whose land she invoked. The&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":430,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}