'Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people have inhabited Oakland and parts of the East Bay for thousands of years. They were forcibly removed from their land with the arrival of Europeans and descendants of Europeans beginning in the 18th Century.'
The Oakland City Council will hold hearings discussing the return of the land, known as Sequoia Point, to Sogorea Te' Land Trust, the first urban Indigenous women-led land trust in the country, and the East Bay Ohlone tribe Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation.The Sequoia Bayview Trail at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland.The project will be reviewed by Oakland's Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission next Wednesday.
"Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people have inhabited Oakland and parts of the East Bay for thousands of years," the city said in a news release Thursday."They were forcibly removed from their land with the arrival of Europeans and descendants of Europeans beginning in the 18th Century." "I am committed to returning land to Indigenous stewardship, to offer some redress for past injustices to Native people," Schaaf said."I hope the work we are doing in Oakland with the Sogorea Te' Land Trust can serve as a model for other cities working to return Indigenous land to the Indigenous community we stole it from."
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