In Good Food News: I found an article from Civil Eats about a quarter-acre of land in Oakland, California that is about to return to Native hands, bringing a sense of place and healing to the Ohlone people.
For thousands of years, the Ohlone lived in the area between the San Francisco Bay and the Monterey Bay. When the Spanish missionaries arrived in the 1700s, they brought smallpox and other deadly diseases with them and enslaved and murdered Native communities.
A lot of the hardship in today’s Native communities is tied to their lack of land, say Corrina Gould and Johnela LaRose, founders of the Sogorea Tè Land Trust, which was started in 2012, specifically as a way to return Ohlone land, so that they and others in the Native American community can grow food and have land for ceremonial practices
“It’s important for all human beings to have a connection to the land,” says Gould. With this in mind, she and LaRose are “working on creating places of healing and a space that young people can be on, so they’re not covered in concrete all the time.”
A very green way to bring native people back to their lands.
For thousands of years, the Ohlone lived in the area between the San Francisco Bay and the Monterey Bay. When the Spanish missionaries arrived in the 1700s, they brought smallpox and other deadly diseases with them and enslaved and murdered Native communities.
A lot of the hardship in today’s Native communities is tied to their lack of land, say Corrina Gould and Johnela LaRose, founders of the Sogorea Tè Land Trust, which was started in 2012, specifically as a way to return Ohlone land, so that they and others in the Native American community can grow food and have land for ceremonial practices
“It’s important for all human beings to have a connection to the land,” says Gould. With this in mind, she and LaRose are “working on creating places of healing and a space that young people can be on, so they’re not covered in concrete all the time.”
A very green way to bring native people back to their lands.
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