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From seed saving and artist residencies to wilderness first aid and fuels reduction work,  get updates from the land through our seasonal newsletter,  Ya Nuunukne, They tell a story.

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Castro Valley Adult & Career Education

Beyond Recognition

Film Screening and Conversation with Corrina Gould

February 27, 2025 – 6:30 – 8:00pm

After decades struggling to protect her ancestors’ burial places, now engulfed by San Francisco’s sprawl, a Native woman from a non-federally recognized tribe and her allies occupy a sacred site to prevent its desecration. Join us for the screening of the short documentary Beyond Recognition, as it explores the quest to preserve one’s culture and homeland in a society bent on erasing them. The film invites viewers to examine their own relationship to place, revealing histories that have been buried by shifting landscapes. Beyond Recognition points to the intersection of human rights, women’s rights, and environmental protection, spotlighting a California story that has national and worldwide resonance. A conversation with filmmaker Michelle Grace Steinberg and Sogorea Te’ Land Trust co-founder/co-director Corrina Gould will follow the film.

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The Environmental Center of San Francisco Public Library presents 

What does land rematriation mean in contemporary Indigenous time, space and culture? Three local indigenous leaders discuss the sacred responsibility to care for, nurture and protect our land through the Indigenous, fem perspective and why #Landback is more than a hashtag. 

Land Rematriation and Cultural Resilience

Returning the sacred to the mother; with Theresa Harlan, Corrina Gould and Tisina Parker

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 – 5:30 – 7pm

Main Library, Koret Auditorium

For Immediate Release:

EDEN HOUSING RETURNS THREE ACRES TO INDIGENOUS LED LAND TRUST

The restoration of the creek land will be supported by a perpetual endowment dedicated to its ongoing care and preservation.

Castro Valley, CA, November 25, 2024: Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and Eden Housing are honored to announce the return of three acres of land along the San Lorenzo Creek in Castro Valley to its ancestral caretakers.  Also known as Lisjan Creek, the site is culturally significant for the Confederated Villages of Lisan Nation tribe and is the first waterway to be returned to the Indigenous women-led Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.

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“My people are named for this waterway, my ancestors would gather here.  This place is important for our cultural and environmental restoration work.  We are honored to be able to be in relationship with these land and waters again and contribute to their healing.”  said Lisjan Nation Tribal Chairwoman and Land Trust co-founder Corrina Gould 

The creek land is located in an area historically known as a gathering place for the Ohlone people and cultural items have been found in the vicinity.  The land has remained vacant for decades following the cancellation of plans to …

San Francisco Bay Area Since Forever!

Celebrating Native Heritage month in the Bay Area with a  limited collaboration between Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, Fairyland, and Urban Native Era to uplift Ohlone people while supporting Indigenous led land return! 

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Ohlone is a term that refers to Indigenous people from at least eight regions across the greater Bay Area,  each home to multiple villages, tribes, and family groups, with distinct languages and origin stories,  all connected through rich histories and deep ties to the land.  

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women led land trust facilitating the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people.

Fairyland is a children’s park based on fairy tales and legends in Oakland. We are working together with Lisjan Nation, to Indigenize the park’s educational offerings and share the story of the land with young people who visit. 

Learn more about the Indigenous people of the  land you are on! 

Support Indigenous led work!

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Available at Urban Native Era,  the Fairyland Store and The Sogorea Te Land Trust table at select Bay Area Native events .    Proceeds benefit the Rematriate the Land …

Amazing opportunity to get experience and support in media work including photography, design, documentation, storytelling, event planning, print media, social media, and more with Sogorea Te’ Land Trust’s creative team. 

We are looking for  self identified Indigenous / Native People  engaged in creative work in the Bay Area.  Experience in visual art, design, and cultural arts welcome! Youth, Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit peoples encouraged to apply.  

• September 15- December 15 
• 15 hours a week
•  $3,500 Stipend

Responsibilities

• Attend weekly creative team meetings
• Attend workshops and skillshares
• Visit land sites and support in land work and documentation
  • (transportation/ ability to travel to various sites across the East Bay needed)
• Generate creative work 
• Contribute to social media and the Fall newsletter 
• Get and give feedback on creative work 
• Support event planning and implementation 
• Lead a media project related to rematriation 

Send a resume and creative work sample to ines@rematriatetheland.org by 8/31/24…