Kincentric Connection With Land

We recognize the land as a collective of beings, beloved and respected relatives, and inextricably interconnected and interdependent families of kin. Land is not a commodity that can be owned, bought, or sold.

Land and all beings have rights that must be affirmed and upheld.
At its core, our work is kincentric. We commit to collectively envisioning ways to be in reciprocity with land, including respecting the essential lives of non-human beings and – though we claim no dominion over land – ensuring protections for the land under human legal structures. Land, waterways, forests, and other beings of the land are integral to our collective cultural heritages. Land is the keeper of stories, the holder of memories, and the key to our futures.
Healing and reclaiming relationship with land is key to Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and other people of color’s survival and thrival.
We celebrate and tend to the land and each other through ceremony, art, music, storytelling, loving work, spiritual care, survival skills, good food, movement, rest, and other practices of devotion and delight
We uphold and galvanize land rematriation, reparations, and resource transfer as means of acknowledging the land and labor theft, enslavement, genocide, forced migration, displacement, dispossession, forced assimilation, and continued structural racism and racialized violence our peoples and communities have experienced.

Ancestors Across the Generations

We invoke land stewardship and sovereignty as inherently intergenerational, holding sacred our own roles as future ancestors and our obligation to future generations.
- Elders and children hold pride of place in our formations and movements.

We channel resources to the original land stewards and to our communities currently dispossessed of land, creating pathways for Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and other stewards of color to build livelihoods and communal wealth across generations.

We ask for permission, wait for consent, create space for those among us who are not as often recognized or centered to amplify stories shared in their own languages and words, and offer credit and attribution as much as possible.
- We believe that to house, nourish, and protect our families, communities, and nations, we must reimagine connections to land, policy, food, and economies that are sustainable, regenerative, and hyper-local. We honor and value everyone’s presence, labor, and bundles – our unique and beautiful experiences, perspectives, and relational, emotional, ceremonial, and creative skills

We practice compassionate and relationship-centered communication that seeks healing, renewal, and (re)connection.
We approach Indigenous consultation as a co-creative, iterative process that centers the voices and traditional leadership of Indigenous communities.
- We focus on nation-to-nation relationship and respecting and honoring our inherent rights and responsibilities.