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The Sogorea Te Land Trust

The Sogorea Te Land Trust

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

  • About
    • Purpose and Vision
    • Our History
    • Staff & Board
    • Partnerships & Alliances
    • Contact Us
  • Lisjan (Ohlone)
    • Lisjan History & Territory
    • Mak Noono Tiirinikma
  • Programs
    • Cultural Revitalization
    • Himmetka: In One Place, Together
    • Mitiini Numma Youth Program
  • Rematriation
    • Land Sites
      • Lisjan, East Oakland
      • ‘Ookwe, Richmond
      • Rammay, West Oakland
      • Rinihmu Pulte’irekne, Oakland Hills
      • ‘Ištune, Oakland
      • Mugworts Cabin
      • Pinnantak
      • ‘Irihte Ujima
      • West Berkeley Shellmound
    • Return Land / Land Return
    • Rematriate the Land Fund
  • Media
    • Updates
    • Resources
    • Creative Collaborations
  • Engage
    • $ Donate!
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    • Land Acknowledgements
    • Other Ways to Engage
  • Shuumi Land Tax
    • Institutional Shuumi Land Tax
    • Shuumi Land Tax FAQs
      • Testimonials

Directors


Corrina Gould

Johnella LaRose

Staff


Ariel Luckey

Development Director

Ashley Salaz

Read Bio Ashley “Mingus Mouse” Salaz is an Indigenous (Coharie/Nahua) storyteller and auntie living in…

Bernadette “BZ”

Seed Rematriator and Land Team Member

Cerise Mary Palmanteer

Read Bio Cerise Mary Palmanteer is a member of both the Yakama and Colville nation….

Cha-tah Ellem

Land Team Member

Cheyenne Zepeda

Volunteer Coordinator & Land Team Member

Daniel Olveda

Read Bio Daniel Olveda is Nahua, Zapatoc, and Yaqui with family from Jalisco and Chihuahua Mexico….

Deja Gould

Land Team Member

Francis Randstead

Read Bio Francis is Yurok, Hupa, and Northern Paiute, having grown up in Northern California…

Freidda Tucker

Read Bio Born and raised in her ancestral territory in the village of Huchiun, she…

Inés Ixierda

Art and Media

Kinłichii’nii Poncho

Land Team Member

Lucio Jacob Tena

Read Bio Lucio is a reconnecting Indigenous person of Purepecha Ancestry who was born and…

Nicole Halvorsen

Read Bio Nicole is Shasta and Karuk, born and raised in Wiyot territory. She joins…

Rosa Domenech

Read Bio Rosa is Boricua, born and raised in the village of Huchiun.She provides support…

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Advisors


Darcie Houck

Board Members


Dr. Beth Rose Middleton Manning

Dr. Joanne Barker

Dr. Melissa Nelson

Julia Hernandez: In Memoriam

Kim DeOcampo

 

STLT board member Julie Hernandez at the Raising of the Lisjan Ceremonial Arbor, 2019.

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