The Sogorea Te Land Trust

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

Rematriation

Sequoia Point in the News

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People gathered at Joaquin Miller Park on Thursday for an announcement of an agreement between the city and an Indigenous group to place a nearby plot of land back under Native control. Credit: Amir Aziz from Oaklandside
  • Oakland to return land rights to Indigenous group, Oaklandside
  • ‘We Have a Vision’: East Bay Ohlone Tribe Looks to Future as Oakland Announces Landback Plan, KQED NEWS
  • City of Oakland Announces Plan to Return Land to Indigenous Stewardship, NATIVE NEWS Online
  • City Announces Plan To Return Sequoia Point Land To Indigenous Stewardship, SF Gate
  • Sequoia Point in Oakland’s Joaquin Miller Park to be returned to Indigenous stewardship, CBS News
  • Oakland plans to return 5 acres of city park to Indigenous groups, one of first cities to do so, USA Today
  • City of Oakland to return 5 acres of land to native tribe, Kron 4 News
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Queer Projects on Indigenous Land

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Resharing this amazing emergent conversation “Queer Projects on Indigenous Land” and related resources for Pride month!

How do we create liberatory spaces on stolen Indigenous land?

Where do queering and decolonizing and unsettling land intersect and support each other and miss or collide?

How are queer led land projects and intentional spaces navigating collective approaches to healing historic harms, land access, landback, and rematriation?

These are some of the questions a loose network of queer spaces, and intentional land project organizers are beginning to ask ourselves. You are invited to our emerging conversation.

Hosted by Sogorea Te’ Land Trust as part of our ongoing online political education, art and community learning engagements.

Participants:

Inés Ixierda & Vick Montaño
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

Deseree Fontenot & Hasmik Geghamyan
Mugworts Queer Cabin

Sacha Marini
Fancyland

Layel Camargo
Shelterwood Collective

Jasmine & Loma Unsettling the Klamath River

Queer Project on Indigenous Land Resources

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Albany City Council Rematriation Resolution

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This upcoming Monday, September 20th starting at 7pm, Mayor Gary has a Rematriation Resolution on the City Council agenda for the City of Albany. We are excited to partner with the Mayor on this Resolution in support of Rematriation in Albany.

Please join us at the Albany City Council meeting this Monday, September 20th at 7pm. 

Our Co-Founder/Director Corrina Gould will make a short presentation on the Lisjan Ohlone history of Albany before the Council discusses and votes on the Resolution. If passed, the Resolution will launch several Rematriation initiatives in Albany including:

  • Recognizing the Confederated Villages of Lisjan (Ohlone) as one of the original peoples of this land; and   
  • Directing the Parks, Recreation & Open Space Commission to work with the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust to analyze parcels within City boundaries and develop a joint plan to rematriate appropriate public lands and open spaces back to the Confederated Villages of Lisjan in perpetuity through the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust; and 
  • Urging the Albany School District and the Albany Library to create a committee to undertake a thorough evaluation of their curriculum, programs and events to ensure that they are accurate and inclusive of the history and resiliency of the Lisjan people;
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City of Alameda Pledges Shuumi for the next Two Years

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Alameda may be the first city in the country to approve a voluntary land tax that will support a local, Native American non-profit.

The group will be using that money to continue an effort to reclaim their native land and regenerate their tribal culture.

The group is called ‘Sogorea Te‘ Land Trust’ – The first women-led organization of its kind in the Bay Area.

Read the full story here……