Getting Ready Together
Our Himmetka program develops community resiliency centers to prepare for natural and human-made emergencies and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Since the first piece of Huchiun was returned to Indigenous hands in 2017, we have seen fires, power outages, visible climate change, a pandemic and the fallout of social inequality increasingly impacting our urban Indigenous communities.
In response, Sogorea Te’ has created our first Himmetka, a culturally based emergency response hub. Named with the Chochenyo word for “in one place, together,” our Lisjan Himmetka includes a ceremonial space, food and medicine gardens, water catchment, filtration, and storage, first-aid supplies, tools, and a seed saving library. Based on rematriated land in deep East Oakland, and with three more planned throughout the East Bay, these hubs will provide essential, culturally relevant, resilience and survival support in some of the most marginalized parts of our city.
![Rematriar la Tierra
Devolver la Tierra
Regresar a Tierra
Rematriate the Land
Return the Land
Return to Land
We are excited to be translating some of our materials into Spanish with the support of our team member Sharon.
As we look at some of the language we use, we are discovering not everything always translates.
What words have you seen being used for Rematriation,
Land Back and Indigenous Land Return work in other languages?
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