Getting Ready Together
Our Himmetka program develops community resiliency centers to prepare for natural and human-made emergencies and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Since the first piece of Huchiun was returned to Indigenous hands in 2017, we have seen fires, power outages, visible climate change, a pandemic and the fallout of social inequality increasingly impacting our urban Indigenous communities.
In response, Sogorea Te’ has created the Himmetka program, which includes culturally based emergency response hubs. Named with the Chochenyo word for “in one place, together” on rematriated lands in the East Bay, we currently have four hubs that will provide essential, culturally relevant, resilience and survival support in some of the most marginalized parts of Huchiun.
