Nation
California tribes (statewide) · california tribes · multiple california nationsCalifornia tribes (statewide)
- Region
- California
In the record
The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving California tribes (statewide): California: 18 unratified treaties (1851-52) and the secrecy until 1905.
Land has come back: California Tribal Nature-Based Solutions land return program and California goal of 7.5 million acres under tribal stewardship.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Who is doing the work
Working with these nations
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Honor the Earth Native-led Pipeline resistance, sovereignty, energy justice Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
These links were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Organizations that work with this nation 4
Named in 3
Sources
No source is linked to this record yet. That is a gap we are working to close.
Research notes
Collective label from campaigns-seed and tribe-org-map.
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- Notes
- Context record, not a treaty