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The Sogorea Te Land Trust

An urban Indigenous women-led land trust that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people

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Recommended Reading

Read one of these pieces and talk to someone about it!

Start a study group with your family, friends, collective, business, coop, nonprofit. Go on walk and talks with your neighbors, organize your  community, penpal with your grandma. Talk about the land you are on and how you got here. How has your family benefitted or been impacted by legacies of colonization?  What does it mean to you to be on stolen land?   What does it mean to recognize this history? How can allies we go beyond acknowledgement? How can we rematriate?  Learn about how other communities are healing the history of the land our relationships to it. 

Rematriation /Unsettling/Land Return

  • Decolonization is Not a Metaphor, by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
  • Killing the Settler to Save the Human: The Untidy work of Unsettling the Klamath River thus far
  • Un-settling Settler Desires compiled by Unsettling Minnesota
  • Unsettling Ourselves: Reflections and Resources for Deconstructing Colonial Mentality
  • Land Conservation and Public Trust Peter Forbes

Books 

  •  Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles
  • An American Genocide, The US and the California Indian Catastrophe by Benjamin Madley
  • A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Trival Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, Randall Milliken
  • American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World, Savid Stannard 
  • California through Native Eyes, by William J. Bauer, Jr.
  • Columbus and Other Cannibals, by Dr. Jack Forbes
  • Resurrecting the Past, The California Mission Myth Michelle M Lorimer 
  • Indigenous People’s History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  • Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right Anders Stephanson
  • What Does Justice Look Like? By Waziyatawin
  • Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation by Beth Rose Manning

Decolonization 

  •  Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity Chandra Talpade Mohanty,
  • Decolonizing Methodologies, Research and Indigenous People  Linda Tuhiwai Smith 

For Indigenous Relatives 

  • Rematriation Magazine 
  • For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook

Allyship and Solidarity 

  •  Land Reparations and Indigenous Solidarity Toolkit Resource Generation
  • Resource Guide for Indigenous Solidarity Funding Projects: Honor Taxes & Real Rent Projects
  • Accomplices not Allies Indigenous Action
  • To Hell with Good Intentions Ivan Illich
  • The Problem With Privilege, by Andrea Smith
  • Pocket Guide to Ohlone Solidarity  Acorn.wiki
  • Questions About Home Catalyst Project
  • Indigenous Justice for Environmental Movements Toolkit
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Send us an email and let us know: info (at) rematriatetheland.org

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