For thousands of years, the San Francisco Bay Area has been home to the Ohlone people, the original stewards of this land. Led by urban Indigenous women of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, one of many Ohlone nations, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust (named after a 3,500 year old Ohlone village) is working to heal the legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy. Through the work of rematriating and restoring ancestral homelands in the San Francisco Bay Area, they are also revitalizing traditional ecology and foodways.
In honor of Native American Heritage Month this November, Foodwise talked with Corrina Gould, co-founder of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, about returning to traditions in order to reimagine the future of our relationship with the land and with each other. "Doing this ecological work, what we call ecological work now, is really tending to the land the same way that our ancestors had told us to tend to it for thousands of years," she says.