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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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Resource Library

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Mother Earth Sit Time

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Monuments to the Past and Future; Reclaiming land and space with the Sogorea Te Land Trust

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How to Rematriate the Land

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Queer Projects on Indigenous Land

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Rematriation Resource Guide

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Rematriate the Land geomorphic visualization

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How to Come Correct

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Giving Land Back to Indigenous People

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The Origins of Berkeley

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The Land You Are On

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Recomended Readings!

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Colonization, Decolonization and Rematriation on Ohlone Land

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Four case studies of Land Back in Action

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Seeding Hope Speaker Series: Protecting the Sacred

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Ohlone Curriculum with Bay Miwok Content and Introduction to Delta Yokuts

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Seeding Hope Speaker Series: Radical Reciprocity: Mutual Aid, Redistribution and Protecting the Sacred

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Seeding Hope Speaker Series: Reimagine Wellness

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Corrina Gould and the Ohlone Shell Burial Mounds

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Living on Ohlone Land: Building Reciprocity with Indigenous Communities

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You are Not in California

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Radical Reciprocity

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🌽💛✨ #corn #maize #ancestralfoods

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#corn #maize #ancestralfoods

Create with us! Two exciting opportunites for cr

Create with us!

Two exciting opportunites for creative Indigenous youth in the Bay Area.

We are now recruiting an Indigenous artist to apprentice with @cececarpio on an amazing mural project in collaboration with @berkeleyrep AND someone to join our Fall Art and Media Fellowship! Its gonna be fun, pass it on, links in bio.

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Indigenous Mural Apprentice

Seeking: Creative, Responsible, Dedicated, Indigenous Artist to join an exiting project with Sogorea Te Land Trust, Berkeley Repertory Theater and artist Cece Carpio.

10-15 hours a week,
October 2022
$1500 Stipend

Send a resume, art sample, and letter of interest to ines@rematriatetheland.org. rolling interview, acepting application untill 9/29/22.

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Art and Media Fellowship

3 months
4-7 hours a week
$1500 Stipend
*Indigenous/ Native
*Ages 18-25

Send a resume, art sample and letter of interest to Ines@rematriatetheland.org. Accepting application untill 10/1/22.

#indigenousArtists #IndigenousYouth #MuralApprentice #MediaFellowship #SogoreaTeLandTrust #CreativeWork
#BayArea
#IndigenousLand

🌿 California Native Day 🦋 A day of recognit

🌿 California Native Day 🦋

A day of recognition and mourning of over 250 years of ongoing colonialism, remembrance of those passed, and celebration of our communities today.

Support California Native communities! Learn the histories of the land and its people! Learn and build relationships of care & reciprocity! Return the land!

Photos & graphics by Viola LeBeau @tamitnicill

(Slide 1 - Coast Miwok territory)
(Slide 2 - Serrano, Chemehuevi, Mojave Cahuilla, and Mojave territory - List of California native organizations)
(Slide 3 - Lisjan territory - List of California Native land taxes)
(Slide 4 - Yurok territory - List of California Native artists)
(Slide 5 - Pit River territory - List of California Native sacred sites for protection)
(Slide 6 - Chumash & Tongva territory - Ways to support California Native communities)

✨Happy Fall Equinox ✨ #fall #equinox #huchiu

✨Happy Fall Equinox ✨

#fall #equinox #huchiun #sogoreatelandtrust #urban #indigenous #womenled #rematriation #landreturn

“As much as we have been here in the landscape f

“As much as we have been here in the landscape for thousands of years, there are no places in the Bay Area that allow us to tell the story and to engage the land at the same time. “

Corrina Gould, Villages of Lisjan Nation Tribal Chairperson

So many amazing conversations and dreams around this easement and land return and all the possibilities that are opening to engage the land. May they flourish and grow.

Image is Sogorea Te' Land Trust Founders Corrina Gould and Johnella LaRose with their vision of a ceremonial structure based on an Ohlone basket at the Sequoia Point land return press conference.

#sequoiapoint #Sogoreatelandtrust #landback #landreturn #returntoland #Oakland #ohloneland

Oh you know just out here with @rosariodawson talk

Oh you know just out here with @rosariodawson talking Rematriation💗

Sogorea Te ‘ representing Indigenous Land @normalaintnormal world premiere @oaklandmuseumca. Episode by Oaklands own Tommy Orange With a shout out to the Ohlone whose land we are on. Amazingto see Urban Indigenous stories in popular media! Look out for it, dropping soon.

#rematriatetheland #normalaintnormal #sogoreatelandtrust #indigenouswomenled #landtrust #landreturn #returntoland

Did you miss Mitiini Numma’s information session

Did you miss Mitiini Numma’s information session on Tuesday? 🤨🤔
Don’t worry! We got you with the highlights!😉

Pilot Program Breakdown:
Runs Oct. 4th- Nov. 12th
Stipends ($600)
Activities
History of CA Indigenous people
Field trips/ Site visits

Registration is now open to BIPOC high school aged youth in Oakland until September 27th!! Scan the QR code, copy the link, or go to the link in our bio under Register for Mitiini Numma Youth Program!

Come meet the coordinators, participate in the activity we are hosting, and sign-up for Mitiini Numma at the NAHC Golden Anniversary pow wow coming up on September 24th! We’ll be there from 11AM-1PM 🤗 🌱
We will also be holding another information session next Tuesday September 20th from 5PM-6PM if you want to catch the next one, email youthprogram@rematriatetheland.org for the link.
Graphics by Eliana and Araceli!
#informationsession #MitiiniNumma #sogoreatelandtrust #register #growthetruth #Oaklandyouth #BIPOC #youthprogram #rematriate

Amaranth and the Arbor. 💜 #lisjan #medicinegar

Amaranth and the Arbor. 💜

#lisjan #medicinegarden #amaranth #sogoreatelandtrust #urbanindigenous #womenled #rematriation

LAND BACK WATER BACK CEREMONY BACK LANGUAGE BACK L

LAND BACK
WATER BACK
CEREMONY BACK
LANGUAGE BACK
LAND BACK
LAND BACK

Chant from the announcement of the return of Sequoia Point.

Video is the above words over a video panning from a figure in a Rematriate the Land sweatshirt looking out over Oakland from Sequoia Point to the distant landscape of the Bay.

#rematriatetheland #sequoiapoint #sogoreatelandtrust #urbanindigneosu #womenled #landreturn #landback #waterback #languageback #ceremonyback

❤️We have a vision❤️ Sequoia Point land r

❤️We have a vision❤️

Sequoia Point land return news round up! Its been amazing to share this news with all of our communities, collaborators, allies, partners, and friends. Thanks for everyone's support!

Look out for our community meeting next week and tell your friends to kick down for Indigneous women led land return. bit.ly/landreturn.

Slide 1 KQED headline "We Have a Vision': East Bay Ohlone Tribe Looks to Future as Oakland Announces Landback Plan with a photo of the press conference.

Slide 2 Native News Online Headline "City of Oakland Announces Plan to Return Land to Indigneous Stewardship

Slide 3: SF Gate: City Announces Plan to Return Sequoia Point Land to Indigneous Stewardship.

Slide 4: KRON 4 headline: City of Oakland to return 5 acres of land to native tribe

Slide 4: CBS Bay ARea:" Sequoia Point in Oakland's Joaquin Miller Park to be returned to Indigneous Stewardship

Slide 5: Bay City News Foundation headline: Oakland plan s to return Sequoia Pint to tribal stewardship, sets public hearings.

#rematriatetheland #sequoiapoint #Oakland #Huchiun #BayArea Indigneousland #ohloneland #landreturn #landback #inthenews #sogoreatelandtrust

Join Mitiini Numma youth program!🤗 We will be

Join Mitiini Numma youth program!🤗

We will be holding information sessions on September 13th and 20th for those who signed up already and any youth who want to learn more about the program and meet coordinators Eliana and Araceli! Zoom link is going to be emailed to those who signed up next week and the link will be posted on our social media the day of. Link is in our bio under Decolonial Youth Program for those who want to sign up!

Sogorea Te’ will be tabling at the NAHC powwow happening on Saturday, September 24th at Merritt College. Catch Mitiini Numma hosting an arts and crafts activity from 12PM-1PM, don’t miss it!! 🎨✨🌱

Support the Return of Sequoia Point! Participate

Support the Return of Sequoia Point!

Participate and voice your support!

•Community Meeting 9/13/22
•Oakland City Council meeting 11/1/22

Donate!

Our Rematriate the Land Fund goes directly to returning Indigenous land to Indigneous hands. bit.ly/landreturn

Engage!
•Take care of the places around you
•Learn more about the land your on
Protect our earth air and water
•Support Indigenous led work
•Check out our resources
•Be a good guest

Learn more on our website. Links in bio.

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#rematriatetheland #returntheland #landback #sequoiapoint #culturalconservationeasement #support #indigneouswomenled #sogoreatelandtrust #anotherworldispossible

Oakland to return land rights! The city of Oakla

Oakland to return land rights!

The city of Oakland plans to return five acres of Joaquin Miller Park to permanent Indigenous control, in what’s thought to be the first case of a city giving land back to Native people.

Under the proposed “cultural conservation easement,” Oakland would retain ownership of the designated area, but the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust would have nearly full control over the use of the land, for cultural, environmental, and educational uses, in perpetuity”

From @theoaklandside

Image is the article headline above and a photo of a group gathered at Joaquin Miller Park for a press conference under two Oak trees. Credit: Amir Aziz

#culturaleasement #joaquinmillerpark #oakland #Indigenousland #sogoreatelandtrust #landreturn

Bay Area LandBack! "Oakland leaders are planning

Bay Area LandBack!

"Oakland leaders are planning to return about five acres of city land to an Indigenous group in an effort to restore reparations. The land is at Sequoia Point in Joaquin Miller Park"

Salgu Wissmath/The Chronicle / The Chronicle

#landback #sogoreatelandtrust #landreturn #rematriatetheland #eastbay #oakland #sogoreatelandtrust

Breaking News! After more than 250 years of sepa

Breaking News!

After more than 250 years of separation, Sequoia Point will be returned to Indigenous Hands!

Today the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and the City of Oakland announced plans to return land owned by the City to Indigenous stewardship!

Amazing day for land back and rematriation in the territory of Huchiun.

Another World is Possible!

Press Conference today at 9:15,
Joaquin Miller Cascades.

All the ways to support this historic project and learn more coming soon!

#sequoiapoint #breakingnews #pressconference #oakland #Indigenousland #stolen land #rematriatetheland #landback #landreturn #returntoland #sogoreatelandtrust

🧡 Cempaxochitl season 🧡 #cempazuchitl #seas

🧡 Cempaxochitl season 🧡

#cempazuchitl #seasonschange #fall #urbangarden #indigenousland

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