Native Roots Network Inc

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.

Running for us, can be a sacred prayer. Our runners are traveling to Japan to participate in the 2025 Tasuki Run, a ceremonial, prayer run around Mount Fuji. The Run, inspired by the Pit River Ancestral Run, emerged in 2017. We organized a delegation to help them initiate the first run. We have been invited to participate once again. Our friends from Japan offer the following description of the Tasuki Run: "In Japan, through our ancient Shinto beliefs we have a deep love of, and connection to nature and our traditional cultures reflected this relationship. Through the Tasuki Run we want to bring back Japanese traditional culture and custom. Tasuki translates literally to the cord that is used to tie up our kimono, but it also symbolizes the bonds of friendship and partnership. In the ancient time stories, five colors of people came to Japan and prayed and talked together to make peace. We will use five-color cord for the symbol of the run. We want to pray for the peace and make harmony together through the run and create strong bonds of friendship throughout the world. In addition to that, through the run we want to connect sacred Mount Shasta, Mauna Kea, and Mount Fuji together with prayer." With your donation, you can support our runners in being a part of this prayer.