‘It’s About Taking Back What’s Ours’ : Native Women Reclaim Land, Plot By Plot
Fighting against colonization and now #gentrification in the #Bay_Area.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, demand for land seems endless. Property values are sky-high, rents are backbreaking, and people just keep coming. Over 2 million more are expected to settle here by 2040. Bulldozers and backhoes reshape neighborhoods. Cranes dominate the horizon. Land, with a home or high-rise plopped atop, can build a fortune for its owner.
Today’s land rush is nothing new. For more than 200 years, there has been a run on Bay Area real estate — a relentless wave of colonization, then suburbanization and now gentrification that left the Ohlone, the Bay Area’s first people, landless.
“Nobody knew about us,” said Corrina Gould, a Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone leader and activist. “There was this process of colonization that erased the memory of us from the Bay Area.”
▻https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/native-women-oakland-land_us_5ab0f175e4b0e862383b503c?ncid=tweetlnku
#résistance #peuples_autochtones #USA #terres #Etats-Unis #femmes #San_Francisco #Ohlone #urbanisation #colonisation #mémoire #destruction
Note pour mon cours de #géographie_culturelle :
Modification et destruction du #paysage pour effacer la mémoire de l’existence et de l’usage de ce territoire par des populations autochtones :
“There was this process of colonization that erased the memory of us from the Bay Area.”
–-> Lien avec les #forêts de pin en #Palestine :
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