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Support Acornomics and the Be•le Bo•m: Land Back Initiative

Raised
$2,150,299
Goal
$3,800,000

Help Us Raise $3.8M to Put Land Back in Native Hands

The Be•le Bo•m Land Back Initiative
As a critical first step to cultivate healing, vitality and resilience for our community, the Be•le Bo•m Land Back Initiative will put significant and strategic Lands Back into Native Hands. "Be•le Bo•m", in Wintu means “Forever will it be/remain” and symbolizes the strength, potential, and renewal that lie at the heart of our mission - to advance Indigenous-led pathways for a just and vibrant community. Today, we are actively seeking to buy back a culturally and historically important 1,200-acre ranch property to serve as one of two key campuses for “Acornomics” -  our framework to achieve community vitality.

Acornomics
A holistic Indigenous economic framework to build and support a healthy, resilient, and empowered community. Acornomics provides an Indigenous-values aligned roadmap to restore our natural, symbiotic relationship between people and earth. Beyond the transactional and extractive nature of conventional economics, Acornomics offers culturally-aligned reciprocal caretaking and health for oaks, acorn and people.

The property in our sight is more than just land—it is a place to build out the vision. The ranch is a place that still holds undisturbed cultural sites, space for housing, ecosystems for traditional food & fiber gathering and processing, land restoration, and the nurturing of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) land management. These all will converge to form a living, breathing place where the principles of Indigenous stewardship and regenerative enterprise can be expressed.

We need your help.

Acornomics Goals
1. Be in Right relationship with the natural world
2. Return Land Back into Native Hands
3. Reweave/restore Social Cohesion/Connection
4. Build Community Capacity
5. Develop Community Workforce
6. Steward for Climate Resilience

Rooted in the lands of Wintu and Yana territories in Bella Vista, Shasta County, Native Roots Network is engaged in a transformative journey to build a more resilient community. The land we are seeking to secure lies within a rural, predominately poor area that is facing ever-increasing threats of extreme heat, catastrophic wildfires, and dangerous reactionary political unrest that all test the already vulnerable and limited resilience of our community. Our efforts to reweave the social fabric and build community are more important than ever. We know that Indigenous values of collective action, multi-generational movement building and earth based solutions provide pathways for the entire community to thrive.

We will steward the land for practicing and materializing our Acornomics vision, cultivating a democratically organized and self-supporting economy based on the traditional values and ecological practices of Indigenous Peoples. The strength of these age-old practices will be woven into modern economic strategies, fostering self-sufficiency, and interdependence through solidarity economy principles.

Help Us Put Land Back in Native Hands. Make your donation today.

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Native Roots Network's Mission: Advancing Indigenous-led Pathways for Just and Vibrant Communities (since 2004)

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Donors

  • Daisy Julian
  • Sarah McKinley
  • Misa Joo1
  • Jordyn Middlebrooks

    land back to the original stewards 🖤

    3
  • Joseph Williams

    You know what is better than a land acknowledgement? Land!

    2
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    Kennicia Trejo

    #Landback

    2
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$2,150,299
Goal
$3,800,000
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