“A female-led trust working to return East Bay land to Indigenous stewardship one parcel at a time has received its largest property yet — 43 acres in the hills above Oakland, land trust officials said…..

The property is the largest piece of land to date to be returned to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, said its creative director, Inés Ixierda. Since 2015, the nonprofit has collaborated with local organizations, institutions and city officials to secure East Bay land through rematriation — a process it describes as restoring “sacred relationships between Indigenous people and our ancestral land, honoring our matrilineal societies, and in opposition to patriarchal violence and dynamics.” At these sites, the land trust holds ceremonies and they harvest fruits, vegetables and native plants, such as sage and soap root”

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After five years of conversation and collaboration, Mugworts land and cabins have officially been returned to the stewardship of the Indigenous women led Sogorea Te’ Land Trust! 

Mugworts started as a healing and wealth redistribution project, establishing a sliding scale, Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC)  centered retreat space to support social justice movement building.  This project was created with the intention of moving it out of speculative land ownership into collective care of a land trust. Our members were connected  to Sogorea Te’ Land Trust through years of community collaboration and worked in partnership to establish agreements,  share space, and shape our collective priorities.

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women led community organization returning land to Indigenous hands in the greater Bay Area. The project and land  is located in the ancestral territory of the Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo people of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and the Kashia Pomo.  As an Indigenous led organization based in Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation territory, Sogorea Te’  engaged protocol by reaching out to both tribal groups to share our collaboration in their territory and extend an invitation for participation in the project if …

American Indian Music and Cultural Arts Festival June 10, 2023

Save the date for this American Indian Music and Cultural Arts festival! Join us at La Escuelita on June 10th from 12-5!

Featured performers include:

Wally Ogi Johnson
C-log
The Bobby Young Project
Jackie Keliiaa 
Stewie G
Rez Coast Grizz
Autumn Everland

And More! Organized by  American Indian Child Resource Center and  Sogorea Te Land Trust. See you there!

Flyer by La Inés.

[ID: A flyer with the above text in turquoise over a yellow to orange sunrise gradient. In the center is a drawing of an acorn with the Oakland Skyline, hills, trees, and a geometric pattern in it. The acorn is ringed in circles of triangles radiating outward.}

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Clean up challenge!

Every year we get hundreds of requests from people who want to visit “the land” and help out. 

While we can’t host everyone at our rematriated sites, we are actually all on Indigenous land and it needs your care! 

Give us a hand! This April in honor of our earth we invite guests on Ohlone land to help us out by cleaning up the land we are on. 

How to Participate

• Pick up trash on your own, with friends, or organize a whole group! 
• Clean up, care for and beautify your neighborhood, local park, or favorite place in Oakland or surrounding area! 
• Take a before and after photo, or estimate the amount of trash you collected and let us know!

We will be keeping track and will keep you posted in our social media stories

Other ways you care for the land you are on is plant native plants in your yards, restore habitats, removed invasive species, be mindful about your water and gas use, and of course, support your local Indigenous led land trust. <3 

Are you hosting a clean up? Let us know and we will send you …