Homeland Return
Homeland Return Newsletter
Today we officially launch our “Homeland Return” campaign, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reestablish a landbase for the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe. The Tribe has a time-limited opportunity to purchase 232 acres located on a historic Nisenan Village site called Yulića near Nevada City.
We urgently need you – our allies, our community – to help us take the next BIG step and purchase Yulića, our original and next “new” homeland.
It is an extraordinary dream to reclaim one of our historic villages, revive our Tribal kinship and ceremony, provide much needed Elder housing, and renew our relationship with the land. This is the FIRST TIME the Nisenan will have a home in our own homelands since the illegal sale of the Rancheria in 1964.
Our wellbeing is inextricably tied to the land. Like fish and water, our people cannot successfully live — and cannot recover from the impacts of historical and generational trauma, poverty, and near erasure of identity and culture — without land for us to call home.
Our fundraising goal is $2.4 million and includes the purchase price, government mandated improvements, and an operating endowment. Phase 1 fundraising: $1.5 million must be raised by April 4, 2024.
This is the Tribe’s best opportunity to reestablish a homeland in *more than half a century*, and we need your help to make it happen
★ HOW TO HELP ★
Share this news far and wide and tune-in over the next 66 days to keep learning and sharing about the progress of our campaign. *We ask you to share our posts at least 5 times over the course of the campaign.*
Donate!
Visit the GoFundMe
Mail a check payable to CHIRP (memo line: “Homeland Return”) to CHIRP, P.O. Box 2624, Nevada City, CA 9595
Contact CHIRP: info@chirpca.org, 530-237-0707
Returning to this land is a dream we barely dare dream. It is a big ask and there is little time but we have hope because of the ever-growing understanding and allyship about Native Land Back and because of the healing promise of this vision for All of us.
To learn more about CHIRP and the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan, please visit us:
Website: www.nisenan.org
On instagram: Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan
On Facebook: California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project
On Twitter: @CHIRPCA
On YouTube: CHIRP CA
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With hope and gratitude for your consideration, Alyssa Nelson & the Decolonizing Quakers Steering Committee