Event Description
Rocío Moreno (Coca) will speak with Corrina Gould (Ohlone) about the struggles for Rematriation from the South and North.
This is the third event in a series with Dr. Rocío Moreno (Coca) that centers the themes of history, identity and territory within the resistance movements organized by Indigenous women in Mexico. The series, organized by Professor Diana Negrín, will bring into focus the ways in which several community-led projects strengthen identity and leverage territorial defense of ancestral lands in the face of ongoing political and climactic threats.
The event will be in English and Spanish simultaneous interpretation.
Speakers
Rocío Moreno received her doctorate in social sciences from the University of Guadalajara in 2022 and is the representative from Mezcala for the Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI-CIG). In April 2022, she sought refuge in northern California following retaliation for her work securing Coca land rights in Lake Chapala, Mexico.
Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone) is the chair and spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan. She was born and raised in her ancestral homeland, territory of Huchiun (Oakland). She is the Co-Founder for Indian People Organizing for Change, a small Native-run organization that works on Indigenous people issues and sponsored annual Shellmound Peace Walks from 2005 to 2009. Her life’s work has led to the creation of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, a women-led organization within the urban setting of her ancestral territory of the Bay Area. Through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, the Land Trust calls on Native and non-native peoples to heal and transform legacies of colonization, genocide, and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do.
Cosponsors
Presented by Professor Diana Negrín, with funding from the CLAS Event Series Grant and cosponsored by the Department of Geography.