American Jewish Life

Sogerea Te Land Trust - Interview 1

The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that returns Indigenous land to Indigenous people. It was founded in 2012 with the goals of returning traditionally Chochenyo and Karkin lands in the San Francisco Bay Area to Indigenous stewardship and cultivating more active, reciprocal relationships with the land. Through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, Sogorea Te’ calls on native and non-native peoples to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do. The CSRC grant will be used to expand food production and distribution for members of urban Indigenous communities who have been affected by COVID-19.

"37 seconds: discussion about organization
1:47 : discussion about youth and community outreach
4:00 : Discussion about displacement due to many reason; ""reclaiming culture""
4:46 : definition of ""rematriation"" - quote: ""what was once before""/ healing
7:51 : Discussion of organization after coronavirus started (Food distribution etc)
10:42 : Discussion about seed saving practiced (planting medicine etc)
13:46 : Story about seed saving
14:50 : quote ""they consider animals and nature""
15:10: Discussion of the impact coronal virus had
32:56 : What worked well and what didn't work well
38:27: issues they faced
40:50: What would you do differently?
44:39 : What would help with your new initiatives?
49:23 : The distributors "

Transcript

August 5, 2020

Abel Gomez

Ariel Mejia

Kayla Wheeler (Advisor)

Nazshonnii Brown

Sogorea Te Land Trust

California

Oakland

oral history

Center for the Study of Religion and the City

Sogorea Te Land Trust

Native American

Indigenous

Ohlone

San Francisco Bay Area

Oakland

Urban Indian

Land

Rematriation