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

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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.