In a new proposal called the “cultural conservation easement,” Oakland plans on giving five acres of Joaquin Miller Park, or one percent, to the Sogorea Te’ Tribe, in what is believed to be the first case of a city giving land back to a Native group.
The Ohlone are building a new homeland in the East Bay, 1 half-acre at a time
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A picture Rammay, the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust’s western garden site. They have three spread throughout the East Bay and are in talks to steward a half-dozen more.Inés Ixierda / Sogorea Te’ Land TrustShow MoreShow Less
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Corrina Gould, with the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone, visits a parking lot in Berkeley where a sacred Ohlone shellmound was historically located.Paul Chinn / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
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Saving seeds at Lisjan, the first land returned to the Lisjan Ohlone in the territory.Ins Ixierda/Sogorea Te Land TrustShow MoreShow Less
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