NISENAN MIWOK COLLECTIVE
Nisenan Miwok Collective Mission Statement:
Through Ancestral Guidance, we work to support Land and Water Restoration, Food Sovereignty, Cultural Practices and Ceremony, and the inherent Right to Self Determination and Economic Resiliency for our People.
Guiding Principles:
Centered on the Land, Our Culture and Our People
Our Traditions, Cultural Values and People are at the center of all that we do.
Building Community
We have a responsibility to honor each other with Trust, Respect and Generosity and will work together to build a community based on these values.
Stewardship
Native Peoples play an import roll in returning Mother Earth to her inherent healthy ecosystems - Healthy Soil, Water, and Air. The goal for the Collective is to regain lands within our Ancestral Territories; to Steward the land through regenerative practices utilizing the Traditional Ecological Knowledge practiced by our people since the begining of time; and finally through partnerships that have been forged, to eventually build an Outdoor Field Lab that will be used to help train other tribal communities, so that we build capacity in land management together, using the ways practiced by Indigenous people for thousands of years.
The boundaries of the Southern Hill Nisenan encompass an area “West to the lower edge of the timber where the digger pine and blue oak are, to Latrobe then to Salmon Falls on the South Fork American River down to Michigan Bar named for the water oak on the Cosumnes River”.
Treaty J occurred in the settlement central to the territory, at the confluence of two streams at the northern most area of the lands designated to be the reservation. Covering an area of 6-miles by 11-miles the settlement consisted of the contact period Anglo places of Nashville, Bay City, Enterprise, Sand Ridge Road, Plymouth and habitation areas along the North and Middle Forks of the Cosumnes River. The Southern edge of the Hill Nisenan Terrotory reaches as far south as Plymouth and into the fluid boundry between the Hill Nisenan and Ione Miwok Territory. The treaty encampment of the military was located on the northern point of the reservation land designated for occupancy.
We Are the Land and the Land is within Us.
Nisenan Miwok Collective is seeking opportunities for Land Restoration for our people, the Hill Nisenan of the Sierra Nevada Foothills.
Our Mission is to incorporate Traditional Land and Water Management techniques and to restore and steward the land, providing food sovereignty and clean waters for our people and the community.
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
June 8th 2024
Koloma Village Site (Marshall Gold Discovery State Park), Coloma CA. IOOF Hall
JUNE 18TH GATHERING IS BEING RESCHEDULED. STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES!
Please join for the June 8th Gathering of the Koloma Woman’s Circle
June 8th, 2024 - Koloma Woman’s Circle
All Indigenous Woman, Elders, and Youth are invited to join for the Koloma Woman’s Circle. The Woman’s Circle was created as a way of bringing our woman together in kinship for talking circle and to share in and host cultural practice.
Click on the Nisenan Miwok Collective Events Calender at:
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For Questions Contact:
laura.galvan.nisenan@gmail.com or
regina.martinez.nisenan@gmail.com
July 13, 2024
Koloma, CA (Marshall Gold Discovery State Park) IOOF Hall
Please join for the June 18th gathering of the Koloma Woman’s Circle
July 13, 2024 - Koloma Woman’s Circle
All Indigenous Woman, Elders, and Youth are invited to join for the Koloma Woman’s Circle. The Woman’s Circle was created as a way of bringing our woman together in kinship for talking circle and to share in and host cultural practice.
Click on the Nisenan Miwok Collective Events Calender at:
August 10th, 2024
Meet the Team
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Laura Galvan
Hill Nisenan Tribal Member Chairwoman and CEO Nisenan Miwok Collective
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Regina Martinez
Hill Nisenan Tribal Member
Board Member, Dancer and Culture Keeper
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David Galvan
Hill Nisenan Tribal Member
Board Member