The Sogorea Te Land Trust
An urban Indigenous women-led land trust that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people
Alameda may be the first city in the country to approve a voluntary land tax that will support a local, Native American non-profit.
The group will be using that money to continue an effort to reclaim their native land and regenerate their tribal culture.
The group is called ‘Sogorea Te‘ Land Trust’ – The first women-led organization of its kind in the Bay Area.
Lower Sioux Indian Community is making plans to finalize a land acquisition with historic significance. The land to be returned to the Community includes Minnesota Historical Society parcels at the site where the U.S. Dakota War of 1862 started that eventually led to the largest single day, mass execution in U.S. history.
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Indigenous Land re[m]atriation is much discussed and little practiced in the Bay Area. Read More……
Penobscot Nation was returned 735 acres for the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine. Read more……
We, the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, an Indigenous, women-led organization write this statement in solidarity with our Black relatives and in support of the movement for Black Liberation, and against police brutality.
We are co-founded and led by the original stewards of the land we live on, and are made up of an inter-tribal community of urban Indigenous people in the territory of Huichin/Oakland.
We live in a country founded on genocide and slavery, built on stolen land, and stolen lives. We share the grief of displacement from our ancestral lands, the theft of our languages and cultures, the loss of our children, and the intergenerational trauma caused by extractive companies and governments.
Black and Indigenous peoples share a deep wound from these foundational violations. In resistance to these atrocities, Sogorea Te’ calls on us all to heal from the legacies of colonialism and genocide, to remember different ways of living, and to do the work that our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do…
Black life is sacred. Protect Black life. Protect the sacred.
Support Black-led and Black-focused projects.
Support Black Businesses.
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