Organization
Sogorea Te' Land Trust
An urban Indigenous, women-led land trust led by the Lisjan Ohlone — facilitating the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people in the East San Francisco Bay. The Shuumi Land Tax is the operation's signature instrument: a voluntary annual contribution from non-Indigenous people living on traditional Lisjan Ohlone territory, supporting rematriation work.
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What they do
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is led by the Lisjan Ohlone — the Indigenous nation whose unceded traditional territory underlies the East [[san-francisco-bay-area|San Francisco Bay]]. The trust facilitates the return of land to Indigenous stewardship through a portfolio of mechanisms: outright land transfers, long-term land-back agreements, the cultivation of restored Indigenous garden and ceremonial sites, and the Shuumi Land Tax — a voluntary annual contribution paid by non-Indigenous residents of Lisjan territory to support the trust’s work. Co-founder Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone, Chochenyo and Karkin) is the public face of the leadership.
Why it’s listed
The conservation-easement model that built [[american-farmland-trust]] preserves working farmland under an existing ownership regime. Sogorea Te’ asks a deeper question: whose land is this, and what would it mean to return it to the people whose ancestors held relation with it for ten thousand years? [[directory|The directory]] lists Sogorea Te’ because Indigenous land-back is upstream of every other substrate-builder claim the directory makes. You cannot have a regenerative food system on stolen land without confronting the theft.
Bioregional fit
Sogorea Te’ operates in the East Bay, within the [[san-francisco-bay-area]] bioregion. Its work is geographically specific to Lisjan Ohlone traditional territory; the model is being adopted as a template by Indigenous-led land trusts in other bioregions across North America.
See also
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- Instance of: [[land-trust]]
- Shares approach with: [[american-farmland-trust]]
- Member of: [[organization]]
- Contained by: [[san-francisco-bay-area]]
Sources
A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]].
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Cultural
shares approach with
- Land Trust Alliance two land-trust models with very different theories of land — LTA's network operates the conservation-easement model; Sogorea Te' operates Indigenous land-back as an alternative
- NDN Collective two Indigenous-led organizations operating different scales and approaches in the broader LANDBACK movement — Sogorea Te' as a place-specific urban land trust, NDN Collective as the national network and grantmaker
contrasts with
- Land Trust Indigenous, women-led land trust returning land to Ohlone stewardship — the rematriation form, governed by the community rather than a conservation board
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