Tax Season is a great time to learn about Shuumi Land Tax.

The Shuumi Land Tax is a voluntary annual contribution that non-Indigenous people living on the Confederated Villages of Lisjan’s territory can make to support the critical work of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. Our Shuumi Land Tax calculator offers suggested contributions based on your relationship to the land you are on.

Learn more about Shuumi Land Tax

Institutional Shuumi 

We offer Institutional Shuumi Land Tax for businesses, churches,  schools, and  foundations.

 Institutions own or rent large amounts of land and use a proportionate amount of local resources. This is an opportunity to enter into a restorative relationship with the local Indigenous community. Find out more about  Institutional Shuumi here.   

Foundations and philanthropic institutions  are also engaging with Shuumi and the histories of the land they are on. This article about  Institutional Shuumi and Philanthropy  from Justice Funders  shares some of the important steps foundations are taking to transform philanthropy.

Learn more about Institutional Shuumi

Share Shuumi

If you already give Shuumi another way to support is to share about it with others. Talk about it with your family, friends, and neighbors.  Organize your reading group to learn more …

Hundreds of people gathered at Lake Merritt for a March and Rally International Working Womens Day, March 8th, 2026.

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In the spirit of the first women’s strike in NYC in 1908, we co-organized this event in collaboration with community against repression and in solidarity with communities in struggle. 

As an Indigenous women led organization founded in protest and prayer, we honor the lineages of organizers, activists, and change makers that continue to work for a better world. 

The 2026 IWWD organizing committee includes Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) * GABRIELA Oakland * Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA)  *  Philippine Solidarity Task Force (PSTF) * Black LGBTQ+ Migrant Project 

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After years of prayers and protest, the hard work of our amazing team, and the support of many many allies, we have reached our fundraising goal and can now begin the restoration of the oldest village site in the Bay Area, the West Berkeley Shellmound! 

In these times of political, economic and social struggle, we are grateful to be able to celebrate this milestone achievement. 

In this first phase of work, we will remove the pavement and finally  let the land breathe! Our long term vision is to restore the land and daylight Strawberry Creek. This is a huge multiphase project that will take many years to complete.  

Thank you to everyone who donated, held fundraisers, spread the word, supported in so many ways, and walked with us all the years that have led to today.  We are blessed to be able to continue to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do. 

To support our work donate here!

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Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is honored to collaboration with Oakland Museum of California in the Good Fire: Tending Native Lands Exhibit.

Rinihmu Pulte’irekne by Renee Castro Ring

Our creative team participated in planning and worked with OMCA to commission new works including a gorgeous triptych telling the story of  Rinihmu Pulte’irekne by  Renée Leann Castro-Ring (Lisjan Ohlone), a short film exploring intergenerational relationships to fire in urban Indigenous landscapes bu Ashley Salaz (Coharie)  and a “LandBack FireBack” shirt design commemorating a future cultural burn we dream of by Victoria Montaño. 

Good Fire explores how Native communities in Northern California have used controlled fire—also called “good fire” or “cultural burning”—to care for the land and sustain traditions for millennia. Organized in collaboration with Native Northern California fire practitioners, artists, ecologists, and cultural leaders, the exhibition reframes fire as not solely a destructive force, but as an essential tool for supporting healthy ecosystems and vibrant communities.

In this immersive exhibition, explore fire-dependent plants, regalia, basketry, videos of cultural burns, and artworks that help us understand how “good fire” benefits all life—humans, animals, and plants alike.  Rooted in Native knowledge and stewardship, the exhibition challenges colonial narratives that have suppressed Native fire and …

Announcing the campaign to begin the restoration of the West Berkeley Shellmound.

In 2024, Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation and Sogorea Te’ Land Trust celebrated the return of their oldest sacred site, the West Berkeley Shellmound, through community organizing, ceremonies, and legal interventions that halted its destruction.

This hard-won victory is just the beginning of realizing our dream of bringing vital cultural practices back to our once beautiful land.

We are ready to begin our first phase of restoration.

With your support, we seek to raise $1 million to take the first steps towards removing the concrete, daylighting Strawberry Creek, and beginning the journey of  our sacred site back to balance and honor.

Learn more about the history of the Shellmound.

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