The Sogorea Te Land Trust

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

Seeking Decolonial Youth Program Coordinator

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust calls on us all to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do.

 As we deepen our work and look to growing the next generations of urban Indigenous cultural workers, organizers and farmers,  we  will be starting a new youth program.  We are now seeking a Decolonial Youth Program Coordinator for our new Youth in Relationship to Land Program.

The program coordinator will work with us to develop a decolonial curriculum, organize, plan and run our programming, lead activities and outings, coordinate land based learning, liaise with youth, families, community groups, artists, activists, and cultural keepers. 

Please send a letter of interest and a resume to info@rematriatetheland.org by October 15, 2021.

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Albany City Council Rematriation Resolution

This upcoming Monday, September 20th starting at 7pm, Mayor Gary has a Rematriation Resolution on the City Council agenda for the City of Albany. We are excited to partner with the Mayor on this Resolution in support of Rematriation in Albany.

Please join us at the Albany City Council meeting this Monday, September 20th at 7pm. 

Our Co-Founder/Director Corrina Gould will make a short presentation on the Lisjan Ohlone history of Albany before the Council discusses and votes on the Resolution. If passed, the Resolution will launch several Rematriation initiatives in Albany including:

  • Recognizing the Confederated Villages of Lisjan (Ohlone) as one of the original peoples of this land; and   
  • Directing the Parks, Recreation & Open Space Commission to work with the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust to analyze parcels within City boundaries and develop a joint plan to rematriate appropriate public lands and open spaces back to the Confederated Villages of Lisjan in perpetuity through the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust; and 
  • Urging the Albany School District and the Albany Library to create a committee to undertake a thorough evaluation of their curriculum, programs and events to ensure that they are accurate and inclusive of the history and resiliency of the Lisjan people;
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Remothering the Land

Regenerative practices and knowledge come from Indigenous and Black farmers, and support healthy soil, animals and people…

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust Nazshonnii Brown-Almaweri, land team member, and William Smith, land steward in Huchiun, share about their work as farmers at our Quail Creek site.

Support Indigenous and Black led Land Work.

Rematriate the Land Fund
Reparations Map
Rematriation Resource Guide

This piece was made in collaboration with Sogorea Te’ Land Trust members, the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, Quail Creek and the Gill Tract Farm Coalition, the Oakland-based Kontent Films, community members, and Patagonia. …

Protect Black Life

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.  

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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.

Click here to view our full Statement of Solidarity-Download
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