#Juristac

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The Rest of the Story: Indigenous Resistance

U.S. Supreme Court building, credit: wikimedia commons In this episode, we revisit two stories concerning indigenous rights we’ve covered in the past. In the first half, Rebecca Nagle joins us to discuss the Supreme Court decision to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act and why the legitimacy of the law is so important to tribal sovereignty. We also talk about the right’s legal strategy in the…

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Save Juristac

http://www.protectjuristac.org/petition/

Above is the link to a petition to save Juristic, known as Sargent Ranch to the public, a vast expanse of land that holds much value to the Amah Mutsun. 

Juristac is a sacred place to the Mutsun tribe and is the location for many traditional ceremonies. Not only this but the land is also home to much wildlife and foliage, it is also a place for some endangered species. Endangered species like the California red-legged frog and the California tiger salamander, plus a multitude of various other species would be devastated by the land annihilation, all for what? To create a pit for surface mining.   

After a history of decimation and the attempt to completely destroy natives culture and traditions, the surviving descendants formed the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, with the goal of keeping their culture alive. A part of that is to continue the mission of maintaining and preserving the land their Creator gave them. Since colonization took away and destroyed most of their lands, it is necessary we help the Amah Mutsun in their goal to maintain the remaining untouched land and help preserve their lands that are being robbed from them.    

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Hello farm-appreciators. I’m about to be remaking my tumblr accounts and that includes this blog but before I get into that I want to direct your attention towards something that intersects with farming more than you may realize: Indigenous Struggle in California. In the general american mind, California has a big reputation for being not only liberal but for being forward-thinkers on environmental issues, the preservation of “natural resources”, and ‘ethical/sustainable farming’.

In the minds of those who know more of the real history, we have a reputation for some of the most brutal Missions and continued marginalization of indigenous people;a reputation for destroying the land we so proudly brag about as a reason for high ‘property value’ in our cities; knowing that despite growing produce that is shipped around the entire country, our own residents face mass poverty and food shortage; that the ‘wealth’ created here is at the direct expense of those who first worked in partnership with the land to sustain human life. In the way our federal government funded schools teach history, we either valorize the “mission period” or we admit to the brutality but pretend it is all in the past. We are also taught to believe 2 things about the remaining indigenous culture: 1- that all tribes are recognized by the federal government and that is the basis for ‘negotiations’ between them and the feds 2- that things such as reservations have been gifts, have been good places, and have been the pinnacle of reconciliation and there are no more points of tension between colonizers and those who resist colonization. This is not the past, though, and there is far more to be answered for than has been yet acknowledged; Historical erasure is just one weapon of the Cultural-Genocide warmongers. There are still disgustingly high rates of direct physical violence against indigenous people, there is the prioritization of colonists languages ( In ‘the americas’ this means english, but also spanish and french, languages spoken by those who came here and violently erected their own nation-states on the backs of the slave trade and anti-indigenous actions), and there is the continued destruction of native lands under the guise of ‘economic development’ in pursuit of capital gain. The fight to protect Juristac (prn: Huris-tak) is a nearly archetypal example of how all these issues intersect. One of the most sacred spaces to the indigenous people of this part of central california, on the old lands of the Amah Mutsun (a non-federally-recognized tribal band), the land is ‘owned’ by capitalists who wish to convert it into a gravel mine before selling it, a move that would ‘increase the land value’ while destroying the actual land. Take a moment today to learn about this and what is at play here. Pay attention. There may just be something similar happening in your part of the world. These fights do not get largescale public interest ofttimes until it is too late to change the course.

updated actions for this specific fight are to be found at http://www.protectjuristac.org/how-to-help/ and https://www.facebook.com/protectjuristac/

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Further Reading:

The Case of California’s Amah Mutsun by E. Richard Hart, published in the journal Western Legal History, 2003 — a scholarly review of the legal history of the dispossession of Mutsun people from their ancestral lands, with a focus on the case of Rancho Juristac (Sargent Ranch).

Video: Excavating the past; Improving the future— by UC Berkeley, 2018. 4 minutes. Portrays ongoing collaboration between the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and UC Berkeley archaeologists and anthropologists.

http://amahmutsun.org/

https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org/

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Sign the petition if you don’t want a new ecologically devastating mine on sacred indigenous lands

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Juristac and the Amah Mutsun: Indigenous Resistance and Regeneration (Encore)

Juristac and the Amah Mutsun: Indigenous Resistance and Regeneration (Encore)

  In this episode, we take a deep dive into Indigenous resistance against extractivism and the forces behind climate change. We’ll look at an underreported story in California about the Amah Mutsun Ohlone’s fight to save their most sacred site — a place called Juristac. Contributors Robert Raymond and Della Duncan explore the horrific injustices wrought upon California Indians since the time of…

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Juristac and the Amah Mutsun: Indigenous Resistance and Regeneration

Juristac and the Amah Mutsun: Indigenous Resistance and Regeneration

  In this episode, we take a deep dive into Indigenous resistance against extractivism and the forces behind climate change. We’ll look at an underreported story in California about the Amah Mutsun Ohlone’s fight to save their most sacred site — a place called Juristac. Contributors Robert Raymond and Della Duncan explore the horrific injustices wrought upon California Indians since the time of…