A place to belong: creating an urban, Indian, women-led land trust in the San Francisco Bay Area

Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

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Beth R. Middleton Manning¹  Corrina Gould²  Johnella LaRose²  Melissa K. Nelson³  Joanne Barker⁵  Darcie L. Houck⁶  Michelle G. Steinberg⁷ 

[1] University of California;Sogorea Te' Land Trust;Arizona State University;The Cultural Conservancy;San Francisco State University;Attorney at Law;Underexposed Films

关键词: Indigenous;    land trust;    resilience;    urban;    women;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-13707-280108

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Resilience Alliance Publications

【 摘 要 】

When grounded in Indigenous epistemologies, land trust structures provide an effective, inclusive vehicle to enactcommunity and landscape care in the face of colonial disruptions. The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust in Lisjan (Ohlone) homelands in theSan Francisco East Bay Area is the first Indigenous, women-led, urban land trust in the world. Two Indigenous women active in theBay Area Indigenous community saw multiple community needs that coalesced around a lack of land. Without land, there is no placefor grounded spiritual practice, cultivation and processing of foods and medicine, and recognition of the First Peoples of the SanFrancisco East Bay area. Without land, ongoing colonial relations perpetuate exclusion of Indigenous peoples and desecration of theirsacred places. We explore the development, framing, application, and expansion of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust as a vehicle forrematriating land and creating community in a diverse and dense urban Indigenous space. Through the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, thepotential, goals, and possibilities of land trusts are reimagined beyond conservation to inclusive eco-cultural-community restorationand well-being.

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