At a celebration on the Chabot House & Science Middle in December, The Metropolis of Oakland and Sogorea Te’ Land Belief made it official: round 5 acres of land within the Oakland hills have been returned to Indigenous stewardship, beneath the care of the Indigenous women-led group.
Town beforehand introduced the concept final fall, which had been within the works for a few years. Town council later handed the movement to create a cultural conservation easement in what was often known as Sequoia Level, now referred to as Rinihmu Pulte’irekne, which suggests “above the purple ochre” within the Chochenyo language.
On the December 13, 2022 night celebration, with former Mayor Libby Schaaf and metropolis employees in attendance, the place Corrina Gould, tribal spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan and co-founder of the Sogorea Te’ Land Belief, signed the cultural conservation easement settlement which places the land beneath the care of the group in perpetuity.
Plans embody environmental restoration, plant gathering, public training, and making a ceremonial house.
Momo Chang is a contract journalist based mostly within the San Francisco Bay Space. She is the Oakland Voices Co-Director. Her work focuses on healthcare, immigration, training, Asian American communities, meals and tradition. She is a former employees author on the Oakland Tribune. Momo has acquired journalism awards from the Society of Skilled Journalists for investigative reporting and the Asian American Journalists Affiliation, amongst others. Her work has appeared within the East Bay Specific, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, and The New York Instances. Momo is primarily a print journalist who additionally produces audio and visible tales for documentary movie and radio. She is a Senior Contributing Editor for Hyphen and previously the Content material Supervisor on the Middle for Asian American Media (CAAM).
