KINCENTRIC CONNECTION WITH LAND 

We are the Land and the Land is us.

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. 

Healing and reclaiming relationship with land is key to Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and other people of color’s survival and thrival.

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.

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.

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