Local Partner: Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, the first urban Indigenous women-led land trust in the country, works to return Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Through rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, Sogorea Te’ calls on native and non-native peoples to heal and transform legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do. The Seeding Himmetkas project develops a local network of culturally appropriate health and community resilience hubs, each resourced with food and medicine gardens, water catchment and filtration, first aid and emergency supplies and a ceremonial space to promote holistic mutual aid, cultural revitalization and Indigenous healing.
Our Seeding Himmetkas project responds to these intersectional challenges through a holistic
approach to health and self-determination, incorporating the latest in water filtration technology and first aid, along with medicine making techniques and sacred ceremonies passed down from our ancestors.
Build an outdoor kitchen for food distribution, community gatherings and ceremony at our pilot Himmetka site at Lisjan. We expanded our traditional medicine making skills, inventory, and equipment at all of our Himmetka sites and deepened our relationship and collaboration with The Cultural Conservancy.
Local Partner:
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust was founded by our Co-Directors Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone) and Johnella LaRose (Shoshone Bannock) in 2012. We launched as a fiscally sponsored project in 2016 and received our 501c3 status in 2020. Based in Huchiun, in Lisjan Ohlone territory, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, Sogorea Te’ is the first urban Indigenous women-led land trust in the country and works to return Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Through rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, Sogorea Te’ calls on native and non-native peoples to heal and transform legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do.Led by our Co-Directors and an all-Indigenous women Board, Sogorea Te’s major programs include Seeding Himmetkas, Caring for the Land, Cultural Revitalization and Public Education. Caring for the Land actively stewards our land sites through traditional and medicinal plant cultivation, seed saving, Indigenous wildcrafting, and sustainable food production. Our Cultural Revitalization program works to revive the Lisjan Ohlone Chochenyo language, songs, land-based practices and ceremonies while our Public Education program shares information and resources about our work through land acknowledgements, public presentations, media campaigns and consultations
