FromSoil2Soul Urban Homestead

The land that my family stewards in Sherman Oaks is in the unceded ancestral territories of the first people of Tovaangar, Los Angeles, the Tongva-Gabrielino and Fernando Tataviam people as the original stewards of this land. The Tongva call this neighborhood Siutcanga. As homesteaders, we acknowledge that part of our responsibility is to help heal the trans-generational trauma experienced by indigenous Tongva people, and this sacred land.

Our family respects the first people of Los Angeles, the traditional stewards past, present, and emerging. As a result of historic genocide, erasure, and systemic oppression, we tend this land today. We recognize that Native communities have higher rates of illness, poverty, houselessness, and systemic violence than any other minority group in the US, and we support the return of land to indigenous stewardship through #landback. We are committed to dismantling systems of oppression that continue to sever the fundamental connection between indigenous justice and climate justice across the globe. Please join us by making sacred offerings to the land by supporting the local Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa ConservancyConservancy, or your local indigenous land trust.