The Sogorea Te Land Trust

An urban Indigenous women-led land trust that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people

Houseless on Indigenous Land

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A collaboration with Street Sheet Newspaper and Oakland Street Newspaper

“Two hundred fifty years ago, there was no concept of homelessness and hunger in this territory, today, we are homeless in our own homeland.”

–Corrina Gould, Traditional Spokesperson & Chair of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation

Before Colonization and before land became something that was owned, the Bay Area was a place of shared abundance. 

There was no such thing as private property and there was no such thing as homelessness.

Indigenous people are  still here, still struggling and surviving, still experiencing disproportionate  displacement, houselessness, violence and precarity.

Call For Submissions: Indigenous people, Black people, People of Color, Queer People, Disabled people and others who have experienced houselessness,  who live insolidarity and struggle;

We invite you to share your writings, art, thoughts and dreams about life on Indigenous land for a special collaborative issue of Street Sheet and Street Spirit created with Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.

What is your experience of struggle and survival on stolen land? 

What ideas and visions do you have for living on with Indigenous Land in respect and reciprocity?

Send submissions to 

streetsheet@cohsf.org

by April 15 , 2023

Selected contributors will be compensated at $80-100/story, $30/poem, $80/cover art.

Expected publication date, June 2023.

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