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"When Joe Sanchez was 8 years old, his grandmother asked him to make a promise
to never forget his California Indian heritage.
She was determined to see the culture live on, after watching her brothers deny
their Coast Miwok ancestry, a matter of economic survival in early 20th century
California.
Today, at 75, Sanchez is making good on that promise in a more ambitious way
than he ever imagined: He’s bought back a piece of his ancestral homeland. In
July, he and the Coast Miwok Tribal Council of Marin purchased a 26-acre piece
of land in the rural Marin County community of Nicasio, once Coast Miwok
territory.
“We needed a place to have ceremony, a place where we could do all those things
that we always did for thousands of years,” he said.
It’s believed to be the first modern “Land Back” effort in Marin County, part
of a growing movement across California to get land back to the original
indigenous people who lived on it. At least a dozen Land Back endeavors have
already succeeded, from an island returned to the Wiyot tribe in Humboldt
County to the Esselen tribe’s purchase of a 1,200-acre ranch near Big Sur."
Via
The Fixer August 2, 2023:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
