The Sogorea Te Land Trust

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

How to Come Correct

Protocols, guidelines and invitations for how to engage our work with respect

The work of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is made possible by the strength, resilience, leadership, and labor of Indigenous women and culture keepers. We are also supported by many allies and accomplices of all different backgrounds engaging with the vision of Indigenous women led land return and rematriation. 

Collectively we are in a world founded on the theft of the lives and land of Indigenous people.  As a society we are really just beginning to learn how to navigate what it means to acknowledge the history of the land we are on, to build meaningful deep relationships and collaborations that honor the past and to engage with the knowledge, time, energy and resources of Indigenous people in respectful and reciprocal ways.

As we move towards transforming our relationships to our history and the land we are on, here are some tips for how to engage with our work, request a speaker, cultural consultation, land acknowledgement, offer an opportunity, or contact us.

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Check out our website. We have information about the land we are on, resources, how the Shuumi Land Tax Works, how to donate, forms …

Giving Land Back to Indigenous People

In this episode of the According to Weeze Podcast, Sogorea Te’s Nazshonnii Brown talk about how we can take accountability and give land back to Indigenous folks. It’s more than just googling a tribe and sharing the Federally recognized information. This process involves researching our lineage to understand how communities were colonized and tribes were lost, looking deeper into the land we occupy to see who those tribes are and what they need present day, it calls for us to speak up against problematic behavior, and more. …

Reimagine Wellness

Seeding Hope is a bi-weekly speaker series hosted by Dr. Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu and Nazshonnii Brown.

Art and Production by Inés G. The Seeding Hope Speaker Series features some of the organizers, cultural workers, farmers, activists, matriarchs, scholars, youth, and elders whose work gives us inspiration.
For our first event, we were honored to host, Dr. Kalamaoka’aina Niheu, MD, a Kanaka Maoli/ Native Hawaiin physician, co-founder of the Standing Rock Medic Healer’s Council, and Manua Kea Medics and Dr. Rupa Mayra, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition in conversation about their front-line, Covid-19 pandemic work with Bay Area and Indigenous communities. In addition, these experts will talk about the importance of environmental, climate and land justice and honoring Indigenous cultural practices for creating health and wellness and they offer directions that can help us to reimagine health and wellness through practices of Indigenous self–determination for our families and communities.

A cultural song offering was made by Aurora Mamea and Kevin Mamea, Mother and son duo, Indigenous (Blackfeet Tribe and Samoan) Community Leaders and Cultural bearers from the Bay Area, CA.

About our Participants:

Dr. Kalamaoka’aina Niheu MD is a Kanaka Maoli physician …

Statement on Covid

Horŝe Tuuxi (Hello)!

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is sending greetings and prayers for all of you during this incredibly difficult time. The world as we know it is profoundly and rapidly changing and the earth, our collective Mother, is calling on all of us to change along with it. In the past few weeks we have seen inspiring examples of people reaching out to help one another, heroes working on the front lines in the medical field and other essential services, those feeding and attending to those without homes, without healthcare, without access. We have shared prayers, zoom meetings, creative food ideas, dance parties and of course, gardening. Whether that is pulling weeds, planting seeds, pruning trees, showing the little ones not in school right now about planting flowers for the bees and butterflies, or getting a food garden ready for your family and community, there is something really powerful about getting your hands in the earth, getting back in touch with the land, slowing down and letting healing happen.

This is a tremendous opportunity to remember what’s most important, to realign ourselves with our values and listen to what the earth is saying. As we take care of ourselves …

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