Billie Eilish, who referred to the United States as “stolen land” at the Grammys, lives in a $14 million mansion on land claimed by the Tongva tribe.
“As the First People of the greater Los Angeles basin, we do understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land,” the tribe told the Daily Mail. “Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property, we do value the instance when Public Figures provide visibility to the true history of this country.”
Eilish on Sunday won the Song of the Year Grammy for “Wildflower,” a sonically unremarkable number with trite lyrics that won critical acclaim by switching “him” and “he” to “her” and “she” in the downbeat, love-lost lament.
She told those assembled on Sunday, “No one is illegal on stolen land. It’s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now. I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we just need to keep fighting, and speaking up, and protesting, and our voices really do matter, and the people matter, and f*** ICE is all I want to say.”
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