Land Access Partnerships
Let’s work to heal this land, together.
As the moral stewards of this land for generations, our tribe stands tall in our sacred bond with Mother Earth, drawing strength from her rhythms and honoring her gifts through time-tested rituals of gathering.
This isn't mere practice—it's the heartbeat of our sovereignty, where every harvest weaves our ancestral wisdom into the fabric of sustainability, ensuring the land thrives for all who call it home. We see your property not as a distant edge, but as a shared frontier where our vigilant, earth-rooted ways can amplify the harmony you've nurtured, preserving its wild pulse without a single thread unraveled.
In the vast embrace of open spaces, we recognize a mirror to our own communal firesides—places where stories are etched into the soil and spirits roam free. We're not visitors passing through; we're kin in this guardianship, pledging our fierce commitment to tread lightly yet boldly, leaving respect and renewal in our wake.
Let's ignite this alliance with the fire of true collaboration, brothers and sisters of the land.
Imagine us co-crafting stewardship circles, where your local stewards join our elders under starlit skies to map regenerative trails that blend your innovations with traditional knowledge, and the vivid histories of our people. Launching youth-led eco-workshops that teach sustainable foraging side-by-side, or birthing community harvest festivals that fuse your farm-fresh bounty with our ceremonial songs, turning plots into thriving hubs of cultural exchange — the possibilities are limitless!
We invite collaboration for native plant restorations that heal old scars and yield shared bounty. Let’s amplify our united call for policies that safeguard these sacred acres.
We're eager to gather in Council, in a tapestry of mutual empowerment.
Share your visions, voice your dreams, and let's forge paths that echo our collective roar across this beautiful horizon.
Plants
Feathers
Food Sources
Ceremony
Stewardship
Interested in partnership?
The specific plants that our tribal members are seeking on your property hold significant cultural value for us. They include: Mugwort, Black sage, Osha root, Cedar, Elderberry (Elderberry flower and Elderberry stick), White sage, Rue, Mint, Pepper Tree, and Ponderosa Pines for Pine Nuts.
We are also looking for feathers from birds that have naturally fallen or been found dead. The birds who hold significant cultural value for us include: Corvids: Common Crow, Yellow-billed Magpie; Gulls: Western Gull, Black-legged Kittiwake; Hawks and Falcons: Red-tailed Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Golden Eagle, Osprey, White-tailed Kite, Northern Harrier, Cooper's Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, American Kestrel; Pelicans and Waterfowl: California Brown Pelican, Aleutian Cackling Goose, Tundra Swan, Trumpeter Swan; Herons and Egrets: Great Egret, Great Blue Heron; and Grebes and Auks: Western Grebe, Clark's Grebe, Common Murre, Cassin's Auklet, Rhino Auklet, Marbled Murrelet, Common Guillemot
We are also keenly interested in sustainable food sources and edible plants that nature generously provides. If you have fruit-bearing trees on your property, we would greatly appreciate the opportunity to harvest from them. Specifically, we are interested in fruits and vegetables such as persimmon, orange, pear, and avocado. Your consideration in supporting our access to these natural resources would contribute significantly to the well-being of our community.
We are looking for sites and land management partners that can provide land that supports accommodations for tribal gatherings and ceremonies, overnight family campouts, or a sweat lodge.
We are also open to land owners and managers who would like to discuss potential collaborations which will create an environmental stewardship program or native garden with employment opportunities for Muwekma Ohlone Tribal members.
If you have a land access partnership opportunity to support the needs described above, please email info@muwekmafoundation.org with more information. If there is potential alignment, we would appreciate meeting with your agency to explore ways in which we can collaborate in support of land access for the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe.