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UC DAVIS ANNUAL REPORT 2009
Photo: Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Park

Sustaining Humanity

Photo: monument at Native American Contemplative Garden

Native American garden

“Then, now and always a part of this land.” So reads one inscription on a basalt column in the garden designed to pay tribute to the P’atwin Indian people who once inhabited the land on which UC Davis now rests.

In November 2009, a P’atwin elder and university officials dedicated the Native American Contemplative Garden — believed to be the first of its kind at any public university in the nation — on the bank of historic Putah Creek.