#tongvaland

With the help of many local community members and nature practitioners nearly 30+ native plants have returned home.

While introducing native plants to the local community, we also bring awareness of the historical context and implications. Genocide of both native people and the native ecology occurred on these lands and it is still important that we seek healing while those traumas have progressed generationally. Especially for us who have been taught a lie that our ancestors were “uncivilized”, we can find rootedness in our relations with the land. Western habits and lifestyles don’t respect the land. From city light pollution that confuses animals to paving roads that remove vital plants and trees, we are struggling to survive within a system whose ways are degrading to the planet, to animals, and to people.

We are here to build relations that will nurture continuous life. That means reimagining everything. That means realizing our own habits. But more importantly that means finding our own healing journey.

#decolonizeland #californianativeplants #tongvaland #regenerativecollective #regenerativegardening #taichi #communityhealing #systemsthinking #reindigenize #nela #sgv (at El Sereno, California)
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