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Bravo!

https://sogoreate-landtrust.com/

Ty for sharing the link

Here are the links for all the projects:

For more information about the participants visit them at: Manna-hatta fund mannahattafund.org Sogorea Te Land Trust sogoreate-landtrust.com Real Rent Duwamish realrentduwamish.org

So powerful Ariel! Love the framing of we're given chance to repair the relationship

That’s amazing!!

So great Cheyanna!

Are you thinking about doing a project like this? If so, what are key questions and/or stuck points that are coming up for you? What are the questions underneath the stuck points?If you are not thinking about doing a project like this, how are you in or not in relationship with the indigenous people that are where you are? Are you doing anything on a concrete level to shift resources to indigenous people where you are? If yes, what? If no, how might you imagine beginning to do so? What are key questions and/or stuck points that are coming up for you? What are the questions underneath the stuck points?

Mario Galvan mario@zsc.org

Mahalo Tyler!!!

Is anyone familiar with this kind of work on an international level?

Could anyone elaborate on the financial/transactional as

*aspect to the projects?

brenda—I don’t see your name in the chat list, but I m at changewrite@earthlink.net if you want to get in touch. your neighbor, Louise

@ Indy SURJ, can you say more about what you mean?

Do we need to be a 501c3? Do our partners? Is this workable with more than one accountability partner?

Ariel mentioned that the Shuumi Land tax wasn't asked for \. Liz and LIberty mentioned that the first step is about building relationships with local tribes. I'm wondering if presenters would be willing to talk in a little more detail of how the projects started, were there any challenges in the beginning, how was trust built, etc.?

@Mario: Are you thinking of a specific international context? And also I am reminded that an Indigenous woman leader told me all Indigenous work is international—between Nations

seconding Indy SURJ’s questions- what mechanisms did you have to build? what/who were elements of technical assistance you had to tap into?

really good point Cheyenna! Charity vs gift.

Agreed—rethinking howe we “value” this offering…solidarity not charity.

I've had good experiences giving gifts.

Appreciating "solidarity not charity"

Me too! appreciating that language!

I'm wondering what knowledge/resources are necessary to establish a land trust, and what the implications for managing the land are for that sort of legal structure.

Do presenters have any knowledge about starting a project like this with a federally recognized tribe? it seems like the 3 presenters are all working with non-recognized tribes/projects. would there be any differences structurally if you are not working with a 501c3, but instead a sovereign nation?

Ariel should go first!

My name is Shayne and I am an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. I currently live and work in Portland, OR and travel back to my family tribal land several times a year to bring money and resources. I have a project named Toki Amanwani that aims to connect youth with medicine making and putting the medicine in the hands of the community. I notice that all three of these organizations are in urban settings. In my community, there are not a lot of people to “help”. My question is, how do I get financial resources funneled into more rural projects where there isn’t enough people to “show up” and help? Thank you.

@Shayne that’s a good point.

@Karen, I think that this webinar won’t address how to think about establishing a land trust. The Sogorea Te Land Trust is an Indigenous-led land trust that you could reach out to to ask if they have capacity to talk through their process.

@Shayne, that’s a really good question

@Shayne~ Its def true there is the concentration of resources more in urban & suburban areas more than rural areas. One idea Z! mentioned was maybe a rural-urban partnership opportunity.

@Shayne thanks for your question. I am also in a rural area in Ohio and it presents different challenges for resource transfer.

@shayne Yeah, we’re betting on density with NYC for sure. I’m also connected to a Native group in West Virginia where I grew up that shares your problem. For them, I’ve been seeking to connect them to folks I know back there with wealth or access to resources. Limited success so far. Another idea might be to team up with other groups in a region so that you all can share the burden of the labor and distribute what you raise.

Question from Toronto, Canada maybe specifically for Cheyanna... What was the process of selecting the org that is receiving the $. In Toronto, there are many different groups of Indigenous people that have historical ties to the area and also similar to Shane’s point above, there are many Indigenous folks in Toronto who are from different places so it makes less sense to do a land trust with one specific tribe. Wondering about the process of selection and accountability for that process.

yes also thinking from rural perspective!

following rural questions too....would love to hear more from folks

I'm super interested in your question Shayne, and thinking through how something like this would work in Rural areas too.

It could be a map like this: http://www.soulfirefarm.org/get-involved/reparations/

Shane -- I wonder if an effort to reach urban folks from rural areas might be effective. Doing political education for people who are currently in rural areas but benefitted from colonization in their personal or family histories in rural areas to encourage contributions this way

I would love that, Liberty!

re: searching your zip code, ICYMI map of indigenous lands

https://native-land.ca/

@Shayne - U might be able to add ur project to that map

This is also a regional Indigenous-Black project that could be a path other places https://nefoclandtrust.org/

I have lived in CO, NM and UT—often no formal addresses for folks on res…Rural Utah Project is supporting a new GPS addressing drop—local folks putting up these GPS “addresses” so people can vote—but also may be a tech use for forming ways for people to donate—such remoteness creates extra challenges.

Thinking on relationship to place, curious if the three programs are targeting contributions from resident-settlers or also from visitors/tourist-settlers?Marinating on intersection of strategies around Indigenous Land Tax, Real Rent, reparative gifts and potentials for decolonial tourist tax, etc. Have the panelists had any conversations around differences and parallels there?Thinking of this question about so-called Seattle/Oakland/NYC, and about recent increases in anti-colonial resistance in Borikén (Puerto Rico) and Hawai’i.

I'm in Nooksack Lummi Territory, is anyone else in that region?my contact info is brel.alexandre@gmail.com

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I’m in Nipmuc and Abenaki traditional territory. Anyone in this region, please email me - I’d love to stay connected! cara.m.silverberg@gmail.com.

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arefolks familiar with Eduard Villaneuva’s book Decolonizing Wealth?

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Thank you all so much!!

Thank you everyone!

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MAHALO NUI LOA E NĀ HOA!!! So grateful for your mana and time ~ aloha nui <3

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Thank you all for showing up and doing the work. I'm from the Klamath Nation, living on Creek Territory

Thank you to everyone for joining the conversation!!

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@louise yes that’s a helpful book. He has also started a fund to move money to Native folks on his decolonizing wealth website I think, called Liberated Capital