The founders of Back to Earth grew up and now live, own property and work on unceded Ohlone territory in the ancestral lands of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, now known as Oakland and Berkeley. We honor the ancestors who tended those lands and waters, and we support their descendants through paying Shuumi Land Tax.
We recognize that we have inadvertently benefitted from the genocide waged against the Ohlone people and the theft and continued occupation of this land.
We believe that philanthropic and other institutions, as stewards of wealth that has been accumulated through the extraction of Indigenous lands and the exploitation of communities of color, have a particular responsibility to contribute to the healing of the lands they occupy and to enter into a restorative relationship with their local Indigenous communities.
We pay the Shuumi land tax to support justice for indigenous people.
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