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Remothering the Land - YouTube
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when i have soil in my hand
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underneath my fingernails
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i feel different
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i feel like i'm where i'm supposed to be
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at
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working on the land i don't have to
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think about people looking at me a
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certain type of way
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it's way deeper than just a line of work
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so
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when i went to school i studied
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conservation resource studies
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that was the name of my major and i got
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to form it around
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sustainable farming agroecology
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indigenous food ways
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i just felt an inherent connection to
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nature
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if you really want to help the earth in
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the biggest way
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look at how people are growing their
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food look how people are literally using
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most of the earth
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as the pandemic happened a lot of
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organizations were learning the
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importance of growing food
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and having a distribution base when that
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happened we were doing a lot of work
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with aguerote members
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i don't like spikes it's not spiky it's
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good for you
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put on your skin moisture skin
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put on your face before you go to bed
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you can
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put it on your on your body like yeah
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you can moisturize your body
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i work for the sigour tayla entrance
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we're an urban indigenous womanly land
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trust based in the bay area
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we refer to this area as huchen
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and we're mainly based in the village of
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lachan which is present-day
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east oakland yeah nazoni is great
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definitely one of the people i got
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closer to within segorate first
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i know that they really are here to
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support indigenous
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and black youth
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i've learned a lot from will
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when to plant things what plants like to
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be next to each other
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what plants like to have their space
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it's pretty important to ground yourself
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it could be planting your feet in the
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soil you want some gloves yes
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it could be saying a prayer
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by being able to work with these plants
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it's fostering a healing
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space but also making sure that we
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understand the greater work that we're
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doing
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my dad came from the navajo nation and
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my mom
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grew up in east palo alto
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my parents met in oakland
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growing up we had limited access to
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green spaces
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the majority of the time we lived in
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apartments so there wasn't
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much space to do your own garden
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a large part of my work has to do with
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education
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we talk about calling on all generations
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and all walks of life to really take
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part in this work that
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is transforming the legacy of
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colonization
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we're trying to make sure that our
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communities can sustain themselves
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we are focused on remediating the land
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to have access to places where we can
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grow food
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medicines pray dance and gather together
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they're like more than 200 varieties
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before i believe that now there's only
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like 50.
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a lot of varieties just die off if no
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one's growing them
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when i hear words like regenerative
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organic
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ultimately all of that comes from
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indigenous practices that have been
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passed down
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soil is everything we don't use any
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chemicals or pesticides
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we don't believe in monoculturing we
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like to diversify our field
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we like to think about the pollinators
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think about the bees think about the
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butterflies
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when the winter season is here when the
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capacity to grow
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food and to be on the land isn't as
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present we put the field to rest
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but also regenerate it through certain
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crops and seeds
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and then when it is time to grow food we
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cut it down
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it decomposes more nutrients back into
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the earth
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if you talk about composting cover
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cropping no-till agriculture that's been
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going on for thousands of years
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it's really just stuff that we're trying
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to come back to
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we're trying to make sure that our
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communities are able to tap into that
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self-agency and be resilient
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if regenerative agriculture does become
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the norm i hope that it's
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it's with the motive of the people you
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know for the earth
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it's really seen as the solution
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and not just a temporary trend
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many california tribes are not federally
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recognized
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some of them are seen as extinct
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if you look at the history of
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colonization
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not just for native people but for black
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people it's not that long ago
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so many indigenous people have been
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invisibilized and erased through time
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and seeing the connections of that
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with food and with land it's very clear
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the current industrial agriculture
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system is oppressive
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because that's what it was based on
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colonization
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slavery there are systemic problems that
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are structural and actually
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written in law that are racist
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as someone who has experienced a lot of
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racial oppression people are seeing now
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from the black lives matter movement
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that we still have a lot of trauma
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today 98 of farmland is owned by white
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people
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coming to the land and when i show up to
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the farm as a black farmer as a black
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person
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that's an act of resistance but being on
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land in a way that's actually healing
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and addressing trauma and pain is
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revolutionary
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when we're at the farm in present-day
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albany
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these are village sites these are burial
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sites they're sacred places
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and we should treat it as such
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saguarte has done a lot to contribute to
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my understanding of
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respecting the land and being actually
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present on the land
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when i show up the first thing i do
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isn't just start working
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i have to tap in with the altar to say a
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prayer
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that helped awaken something that was
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already inherently inside of me
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and i think all of us have a connection
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in that way
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by having the land trust segurate is
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able to do rematuiation
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rematuration is saying give the mother
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back the earth
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you're giving the indigenous people the
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land back
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the work that we're doing is to ensure
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that the generations after us will have
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a place to live
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we're encouraging people how to be in
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right relationship with others
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more thoughtful of what we're doing to
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the earth
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figuring out ways that we can respect
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traditional practices and indigenous
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communities
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and recognize that this knowledge is
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just as important as your published
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science journal
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it's really having land spaces that
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aren't just
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thinking about how we can shape
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agriculture
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but how can we shift our world viewpoint
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[Laughter]
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[Laughter]
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