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
It takes a ComeUnity to heal from COVID â and cancer
It takes a ComeUnity to heal from COVID â and cancer
January 2, 2021
A Poverty Skolaz journey through COVID, cancer and healing in ComeUnity
by Lisa âTinyâ Gray-Garcia
âOnly rich white people get corona. Do you know anyone who has got it?â Rico, one of the currently houseless poverty skolaz who works in the Homefulness village, chuckled as he refused another one of my attempts to hand him a mask. It went on like this for weeks with Rico and others who worked on building the Mamahouses for houseless families at Homefulness through the shelter in place lockdown imposed state and county-wide in California starting March 2020.