Native Women Reclaim Land Plot by Plot
In the San Francisco Bay Area, demand for land seems endless. Property
values are sky-high, rents are backbreaking, and people just keep
coming. Over 2 million more are expected to settle here by 2040. Today's
land rush is nothing new. For more than 200 years, there has been a run
on Bay Area real estate a relentless wave of colonization, then
suburbanization and now gentrification that left the Ohlone, the Bay
Area's first people, landless. Corrina Gould, a Chochenyo and Karkin
Ohlone leader and her partner in crime Johnella LaRose, who is
Shoshone-Bannock and Carrizo; founded the Sogorea Te Land Trust in 2012
to reclaim Ohlone land in the Bay Area.
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