Beyond Recognition: The Ohlone

Our radio adaptation and update of the film Beyond Recognition by Underexposed films: “After decades struggling to protect her ancestors’ burial places, a Native woman from a non-federally recognized Ohlone tribe and her allies occupy a sacred site to prevent its desecration. They then vow to follow a new path- to establish the first women-led urban Indigenous land trust.”

The Sogorea Te Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led community organization that facilitates the return of Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone lands in the San Francisco Bay Area to Indigenous stewardship. Sogorea Te creates opportunities for all people living in Ohlone territory to work together to re-envision the Bay Area community and what it means to live on Ohlone land. Guided by the belief that land is the foundation that can bring us together, Sogorea Te calls on us all to heal from the legacies of colonialism and genocide, to remember different ways of living, and to do the work that our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do.

Music: 

Andrew Bird

Justin Wasterlain & Brian Wismar,

Sad Bastard Book Club

 Agrimonia

T.I.W.A.E.I.S

Additional music for radio adaptation by Anitek

More Information:

The Sogorea Te Land Trust: An Urban Indigenous Women-led Land Trust in California’s East Bay [1]

Underexposed Films: Beyond Recognition [2]

Beyond Recognition on You Tube  [3]

Shopping Mall over Sacred Site [4]

These Indigenous Women Are Reclaiming Stolen Land [5]

Planting Justice and Segorea ‘Te Land Trust [6]

Featuring:

Corrina Gould, Chochenyo/Karkin Ohlone

Gregg Castro, T’rowt’raahh Salinan Rumsien Ohlone

Maura Sullivan, Coastal Band Chumash

Johnella La Rose, Shoshone- Bannock Tribe

Vivian Thorpe, Washoe Tribe

Wounded Knee DeOcampo, Me-Wuk Tribe

Lisa Tiny Grey Garcia  Co-Founder Homefulness and POOR magazine

Thanks to the Christensen Fund for supporting Making Contact’s Community Storytelling Fellows and our coverage of Indigenous People.

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[1] http://sogoreate-landtrust.com/

[2] https://underexposedfilms.com/beyond-recognition

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=CQOkiyLW1S8

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeryville_Shellmound

[5] https://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/indigenous-women-reclaim-stolen-land-california-bay-area-20190430

[6] http://plantingjustice.org/nursery-sogorea-te

[7] https://makingcontact.networkforgood.com/projects/39193-making-contact-year-round