Pomo Land Back

$10,000 to support collecting oral histories and writing reports documenting the cultural landscape in the forested mountains of Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF), a 48,000 acre state owned forest in the ancestral territory of the Pomo Tribe in California. Travel to the field to demarcate these areas, original oral history research, and compiling extant botanical surveys serves to strengthen the case for land back as reparations at the California Truth and Healing Council through which the Pomo Tribe have a seat at the table to co-manage with the state forest located in its ancestral territory, which includes ancient village sites and trails travelled to the coast for countless thousands of years by Pomo ancestors.