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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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Return Land / Land Return

 We are founded on stolen land and Indigenous people are still here.  

If you have access to land and wealth, consider your place in the lineage of this theft and how you might contribute to its healing, how you might reimagine your relationship to the land you are on.  

From creating a cultural easement for gathering rights, offering access to a space or writing us into your will or nonprofits dissolution documents,  we are dreaming with our supporters to build many paths of radical reciprocity that are a part of rematriation and land return. 

“As long time racial justice activists, we are choosing not to perpetuate the unearned privilege of passing on our home within our White families…”

From a letter about rematriating a home to Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

Read the full letter here.

Creative collaborations with our allies have opened up gardens to grow our food in, neighborhood projects have cultivated plants for us to make medicine with, and allies have opened their access to privatized land  allowing us to create Lisjan and build ceremonial spaces including the first Ohlone arbor in territory for more than 200 years.  

If you have more than you need, consider rematriating. 

“The only compensation for land is land.”

Winona LaDuke

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Rematriation Resources

Recommended Readings

Check out our in progress Recommended Reading List.

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. 

Questions About Home for Reflection

These are Questions About Home is an for exercise is for non-native people to learn and reflect on the history and current struggles of Indigenous people, and to begin thinking about our role in colonization and decolonization. By Qwul’sih’yah’maht, Robina Thomas (Lyackson of the Coast Salish Nation) with input from our founders Corrina Gould (Chochenyo and Johnella LaRose (Shoshone-Bannock), Nick Tilsen (Oglala-Lakota), Annie Morgan Banks and Chanelle Gallant.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations

Check out these tips for talking about Settle Colonialism and other difficult conversations from Showing Up for Racial Justice Albuquerque.

Resource Guide for Indigenous Solidarity Funding Projects

This is a Resource Guide for Indigenous Solidarity Funding Projects compiled by the Indigenous Solidarity Network and representatives from Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, Real Rent Duwamish, and the Manna-hatta Fund.

Resource-Guide-for-Indigenous-Solidarity-Funding-Projects-with-linksDownload

Native Land Maps

Understand your relation to the land on which you live, work, and stand.

Native Land Map
East Bay Native Peoples Map
  • Bay Area Native Languages
  • Bay Area Tribes
Maps by East Bay Regional Park District

Black and Indigenous Reparations Map

Reparations Map for Black and Indigenous farmers and land projects from SoulFire Farm.

Land Returns and Rematriation Examples

Churches Return Land to Indigenous Groups (2020)

Churches Return Land to Indigenous Groups

Religious News Wire, December 2020

Yale Union Art Center in Portland, OR (2020)

YALE UNION ART CENTER CEDES PROPERTY RIGHTS TO NATIVE ARTS AND CULTURES FOUNDATION
Artform, July 2020

Penobscot Nation, Maine (2020)

More than 700 Acres of Ancestral Land Returned to Penobscot Nation

Press Herald, October 2020

Esselen Tribe Land Return, Big Sur CA (2020)

Northern California Esselen tribe regains ancestral land after 250 years
The Guardian, July 2020

Alma de Mujer outside Austin, TX (2019)

Alma de Mujer Center for Social Change

Woman gives money from farm land sale back to tribe who once hunted there (2019, Kansas)
The Wichitah Eagle, February 2019

Ponca Land Return (2018)

In Historic First, Nebraska Farmer Returns Land to Ponca Tribe Along “Trail of Tears
Bold Nebraska, June 2018

Sierra stewards listen to the trees, and a California tribe regains an ancestral land
The Sacramento Bee, June 2018

Tuluwat (portion of) returned to Wiyot Tribe in Eureka, CA (2018)

Tuluwat Project
Wiyot.Us

The Coming Home Song: Wiyot People Joyous as Eureka City Council Takes Another Step Towards Returning Indian Island
Redheaded Blackbelt, December 2018

The Wiyot Tribe’s Long Path to Renewing Indian Island
KHSU Diverse Public Radio, August 2018

Richardson Ranch in Sonoma, CA (2017)

How This Tribe Got Their Coastal California Lands Returned
Yes Magazine, April 2018

Sonoma Coast’s Stewarts Point becomes part of historic agreement for coastal ranch
The Press Democrat, February 2017

Professor gives $250K to Ute Indian Tribe to compensate for great-grandparents profiting off tribal land sales
The Salt Lake Tribune, September 2017

Return of the Sinkyone- Land & People

Return of the Sinkyone—Land&People
The Trust for Public Land, 1998

The InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness: Ten Tribes Reclaiming, Stewarding, and Restoring Ancestral Lands By Hawk Rosales
Wild.org

International

South Africa Confronts a Legacy of Apartheid
The Atlantic, May 2019

New Zealand to pay colonial compensation
Al Jazeera, May 2013

Australia Aboriginals win right to sue for colonial land loss
Al Jazeera, March 2014

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