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Native Roots Network Inc

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

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Native Roots Network (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.

Bella Vista, CA
nativerootsnetwork.org
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 99-2070624

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Feed fundraiser card link to Support Acornomics and the Be•le Bo•m: Land Back Initiative
"Native Roots" and a basket design sit within a red circle with the words "Counter Hegemonic Taskforce" in white in an outer circle.
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At the top: From Left to Right: The Native Roots Network logo, the words "Be•le Bo•m Land Back Initiative" in white letters. Both sit atop a red bar with darker red basket design. These elements sit above an aerial landscape image showing a midground and sweeping off into the distance to rolling, low hills.

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

Give and Help put Land and True Self-sufficiency back in Native Hands Support the Be•le Bo•m Land Back Initiative & Acornomics: A (K)New Ecosystem for Life As a critical first step to cultivate healing, vitality and resilience for our community, the Be•le Bo•m Land Back Initiative put significant and strategic Lands Back into Native Hands. With the help of The California Endowment and People's Network for Land & Liberation Fund (PNLL), respectively, we were able to buy back a culturally and historically important 4.5-acre parcel on HWY 299E and a 1,209-acre former ranch to serve as two key campuses for “Acornomics” -  our framework to achieve community vitality. "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 asking for support to reinvest in the PNLL Fund that made this land return possible and to buttress our work to develop and achieve true financial sustainability. Acornomics: A (K)New Ecosystem for Life 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 lands we call Əl Kulus and Wenem To•s are more than just land—these are places to build out the vision. Wenem To•s 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 sites form living, breathing places where the principles of Indigenous stewardship and regenerative and cooperative enterprises can be expressed. We need your help. Acornomics Goals 1. Be in Right relationship with the Natural World 2. Support Longterm Needs for Land Back & Self-Determination 3. Reweave/restore Social Cohesion/Connection 4. Build Community Capacity & Use Production 5. Develop Community Workforce & Cooperative Enterprises 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 lands we bought back lie within a rural, predominately poor area that is facing ever-increasing threats of extreme heat, catastrophic wildfires, and dangerous reactionary political unrest that 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 are stewarding these lands for practicing and materializing our Acornomics vision, cultivating a democratically organized and community-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 & Self-sufficiency Back in Native Hands. Make your donation today.
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Feed fundraiser card link to Support our Ceremonial Runners' travel to Tasuki Run - Japan
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Support our Ceremonial Runners' travel to Tasuki Run - Japan

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.
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Donors

  • Rachel Shah

    I am grateful to be a part of the enterprise that puts lands back into Indigenous hands and stewardship. We have much to heal in our world and this is the first step.

  • Jordyn Middlebrooks

    land back to the original stewards 🖤

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