ASSEMBLYMEMBER JAMES RAMOS has a persistent memory from his childhood in San Bernardino County. A teacher at his elementary school played a drum song and asked students to stand up if they were Native American and interpret the song for the class.
“That’s not our culture,” Ramos told his teacher. He grew up on the San Manuel Indian Reservation as a member of the Serrano/Cahuilla tribe, which uses gourd rattles, not drums, for music, he said.
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