Donna Bransford and Jocelyn Wong
Non Profit Quarterly, December 12, 2023
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“….As members of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust on Lisjan (Ohlone) land in the San Francisco Bay Area describe it, land rematriation means “to restore a people to their rightful place in sacred relationship with their ancestral land.” Rematriation is about returning to a state of reciprocal responsibility between a people and the land.
In philanthropy, people often talk about Indigenous people returning to “steward” their homelands, which reflects an understanding that “ownership” is not the way that many Indigenous people see their relationship to land. However, “stewardship” may still be a limited way of understanding the relationship to the land for Indigenous communities. The members who comprise the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust describe the relationship that Lisjan people have to the land called the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, by saying, “We did not own the land, we belonged to it….”
![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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