Supporting land rematriation, healing and self determination with Native Roots Network. 

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

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

[Native Roots Network](https://www.nativerootsnetwork.org/) (NRN), an Indigenous-led nonprofit based in Wintu, Yana & Pit River territories, empowers Indigenous communities by promoting a shift from an extractive to a regenerative economy.  Our mission is to advance Indigenous-centered pathways for just and vibrant communities.  Focused on cultural revitalization for individual and community well-being, NRN delivers sustainable solutions to contemporary crises. We do this through organizing, activating, advocating, resisting, and building through community and multi-stakeholder connections, convenings, social justice movement, political education and development, and through traditional and contemporary arts. 

We are at a pivotal moment where we have the opportunity to bring back land into Native hands. We need your help to secure 1200 acres of land as part of our Indigenous community led land trust initiative called the ***Be•le Bo•m Initiative*** - Wintu language for "Forever shall it remain."

At the heart of our work is our "Acornomics" development framework—an Indigenous  value-led development framework symbolized by the mutual reciprocity between people and nature, epitomized by care taking of the oaks for acorn, a crucial food resource of Native Californian Peoples. This ancestral wisdom informs our workforce development and place-making initiatives, aiming to rejuvenate our roles as land stewards.

This land will provide a place for us to fully deploy our Acornomics framework and build out our Indigenous-led regenerative projects, including establishing a TEK (traditional ecological knowledge) land management team, localized fabrication production lab, solar micro-grid development installation crew,  and Native and healthy food gardens in conjunction with meaningful, culturally-relevant preservation and preparation.

Your donation will help us rematriate this land and get it back in Native hands. Donate today.

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**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.**

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

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