An urban Indigenous women-led land trust that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people
As we continue our work of Rematriation, we invite our community and supporters to read our stories and updates from the land, and our growing programs and projects. Check out the Ya Nuunukne Fall 2021 Newsletter of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust here!
Ya Nuunukne Fall 2021 Newsletter Designed & Edited by Viola LeBeau…
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.
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:
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.
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.
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. …
Check out our new Recommended Reading list! Start a study group! Learn about the history of where you are and how people are beginning to transform relationship to land.
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.…
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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