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The Sogorea Te Land Trust

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

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Interview with Corrina Gould

December 22, 2016

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Pawnee eagle corn harvest at Heron Shadows with @c

Pawnee eagle corn harvest at Heron Shadows with @culturalconservancy 🌽.

📷Bernadette

[a glorious spread of purple to white colored Indigenous corn harvest]

#pawneeeaglecorn #ancestralfoods #maiz #projectprocess #sogoreatelandtrust #urbanindigenous #womenled #Rematriation

Rinihmu Pulte'irekne 🌳 "The long term vision f

Rinihmu Pulte'irekne 🌳

"The long term vision for Rinihmu is to restore the land and recreate a thriving, beautiful, ceremonial gathering place where Indigenous people and their guests can come together, and share cultural information, celebrations, and ceremony.”

[ID: a group of Indigenous women and two spirit people working under a huge old Oak tree]

#Indigenousvisions #Rinihmu #sequoiapoint #oaklandhills #landback #landreturn #rematriation #regeneration

Summers End! Seasons change is a great time to re

Over 250 Years of Resistance and Still Here Calif

Over 250 Years of Resistance and Still Here

California Native Day is a day of recognition of over 250 years of ongoing colonialism, remembrance of those passed, and celebration of our communities today.

In Lisjan territory and much of the Bay Area and California, the colonization of this land began with the reign of terror inflicted by Spanish soldiers and missionaries in the late 17th century, who sought to convert all Indigenous people into Catholic subjects of Spain and steal their land. The Missions were plantations, built by slave labor and sustained through brutal physical violence and extractive land practices. The Spanish brought deadly diseases, invasive species and Christian ideology based on human dominion of the natural world with devastating consequences for the Lisjan people and all living beings they shared the land with.

Today, we continue to inhabit our ancestral homelands, fight for our sacred sites and revitalize our cultural practices.

Graphic by @tamitnicill

[ID: Images of California Native dancer among the stars, with words “Over 250 Years of Resistance And Still Here”]

#californiaindianday #californianativeamericanday #honoringourancestors

The sounds of a Tobacco seed harvest along with th

The sounds of a Tobacco seed harvest along with the 880 freeway. Hopi Tobacco was one of the first plants we tended to in 2018. The upcoming year we grew a few hundred and shared with our Native community. Folks came to Deep East Oakland to swoop up a few for their gardens all over the Bay Area.
Tobacco is a cultural significant plant for many tribes all over Turtle Island and it continues to be aside from it being one of the first capitalized plant by settlers.
#SeedRematriation #UrbanRez #UrbanNatives #throwback

Digital camera flicks from our youth in Mitiini Nu

Digital camera flicks from our youth in Mitiini Numma ☀️

Youth learned photography skills this past summer and got to use cameras to document our time together and progress of the land. These are from a day at Pinnantak 🐝

ID: (1) Close up shot in the greenery, behind some plants is a youths hands holding a black digital camera. (2) Picture of ladybug poppies in the garden, flowers are red with black dots. (3) Close up photo of yellow flowers in the garden, there are garden beds in the background.

📸: Mitiini Numma youth

#mitiininumma #youthprogram #sogoreatelandtrust #picturesontheland #joinus #applicationsopen

Every Seed is the Past. Every Seed is the Future

Every Seed is the Past.

Every Seed is the Future.

Saving seeds connects us to everything that came before and everything yet to come.

[ID: a woman in shades of purple is reaching up to collect seeds from a tall sunflower, all around her is California Chia in bloom, there are some green plants, blue butterflies and a pink to purple gradient in the sky. the text reads Every Seed is the Past. Every Seed is the Future.]

#ancestralpractice #seedsaving #Nativeseeds #summersend #projectprocess #sogoreatelandtrust #urbanindigenous #womenled #landtrust #landback #landreturn #rematriation

Youth on the land 🌱 Photos from our Summer Mit

Youth on the land 🌱
Photos from our Summer Mitiini Numma program at Pinnantak. ☀️

Come grow the truth with us this fall in our wave 3 cohort starting this October! Fill out our interest form, link in bio ✨

ID: (1) Three youth participants planting in a native plant garden. Surrounded by green and kneeling on the soil. (2) Youth participant watering the native plants. (3) Two participants walking around garden, one next to a garden bed, and one next to a plum tree.

#MitiiniNumma #growthetruth #sogoreatelandtrust #youthleaders #afterschoolprogram

🪶Women Warriors 🪶 Chief Caleen Sisk, (Winne

🪶Women Warriors 🪶

Chief Caleen Sisk, (Winnemem Wintu), Tribal Spokesperson Corrina Gould, (Lisjan Ohlone) and Kumu Pua Case (Kanaka Maoli) at the closing ceremony for Run for Salmon this summer.

Through their respective and collective work, they protect their ancestral Sacred sites: the McCloud River in Northern California, the West Berkeley Shellmound located in the Bay Area, California and Hawaiʻi’s Mauna Kea. These Indigenous women leaders are culture bearers in Indigenous-led movements that center Indigenous knowledge and protocols, land rematriation, and Indigenous cultural practices. Through their work they build and inspire intergenerational, multi-racial, local, and global movements to protect the Sacred in their various homelands.

Thank you for your work.

#tbt #womenwarriors #Indigenouswomenrising #run4salmon #sogoreatelandtrust #protectthesacred

“As we reclaim our land in this urban area, it’s important to understand that we are doing that work as Indigenous people from many tribes, working together to create healing on this land.”

-Corrina Gould, Lisjan tribal chairperson, Co-Founder/Director of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

[ID: a deep blue background sprinkled with stars, a silhouette of a cityscape, and the above text in white.]

#manytribes #sogoreatelandtrust #urbanindigenous #womenled #landback #landreturn #rematriation #BayArea #indigenousland

Amaranth, Huaútli, Quihuicha 💜 Indigenous gra

Amaranth, Huaútli, Quihuicha 💜

Indigenous grains once outlawed by colonizers, now growing on rematriated land in East Oakland.

ID: a slow motion reel of two brown hands processing deep burgundy colored amaranth with seeds cascading an abundance.

#ancestralfoods #outlawgrain #process #sogoreatelandtrust #urbanindigenous #womenled #landtrust #rematriatetheland

“Do you think in 100 years they’ll refer to th

“Do you think in 100 years they’ll refer to this as “the time right before California became uninhabitable?”

Oh sh*t

No.

Because the US is going to cede the land to Indigenous Stewardship.

Speaking it into existence.”

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

…

Three years ago today wildfire smoke darkened the daylight to an dusk in the Bay Area and beyond.

Since then many of our relatives have continued to suffer fallout from environmental crisis and many continue to work towards another world.

It’s not too late to rematriate! Speak it, deed it, build it, plant it, nurture it, grow it into being.

Pics are from 9/11/20, 1pm, Oakland.

Text thread Repost from @stephgervacio .

#climatechaos #stillonlyoneplanet #rematriatetheland #returntheland #cedetheland #unsettle #landback #indigenousstewardshipnow

We invite BIPOC youth ages 13-18 in Huchiun to joi

We invite BIPOC youth ages 13-18 in Huchiun to join us for Mitiini Numma Wave 3 starting this fall! 🍂
Join us as we combine youth leadership, community, liberation, and ecological knowledge on rematriated land! Program will be held after school starting early October, limited spots available.
Fill out our interest form by September 21st via this link https://forms.gle/En8xH313WYhBQdNS9 also available in our bio! ✨

#joinus #mitiininumma #youthprogram #rematriatedland #growthetruth

The very first elderberry harvest at ‘Ookwe Park

The very first elderberry harvest at ‘Ookwe Park in so called Richmond in 2021

From the land / For the land 🌿 Freshly bundled

From the land / For the land 🌿

Freshly bundled white sage from Rammay Garden, West Oakland, Ohlone land.

ID: a small stack of White sage bundles wrapped with red thread with sage in the background.

#rammay #medicinegarden #fromtheland #fortheland #sogoreatelandtrust

Shuumi means gift. Shuumi is a voluntary land ta

Shuumi means gift.

Shuumi is a voluntary land tax that non-indigenous residents living on the confederated villages of Lisjan Nation pay that contributes to the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people.

The Land Tax supports cultivating urban gardens, building community centers and sacred arbors, purchasing and managing land, engaging in public education and advocacy, and developing community resilience.

For more faqs on the Shuumi Land tax visit the Sogorea Te’ website and click the Pay Shuumi tab.

Design by media fellow Namixtulu.

ID:
[Blue color bordering an image with a ladybug on some leaves. On top of the image is written out “On Indigenous Land Pay Shuumi” in black and redish-orange]

#onindigenousland #shuumi #voluntarytax #honortax #sogoreatelandtrust

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