Join Indigenous Futures Society in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to return 3,200 acres in Lincoln, California to the care of its Original Peoples. Watch our campaign video:

Before the dams. Before the fences. Before the deeds that never should have existed, this land we call Momi' Jokoj' — Running Waters — belonged to no one — because it belonged to everyone: the Nisenan people who tended it, the waters that ran through it, the food it grew for generations.

One hundred and seventy-one years ago, the United States government sat down with the Nisenan people and made a promise.

They signed a treaty. Then they buried it.

That relationship was broken by force. Today, we have the chance to restore it — not as memory, but as ownership.

“The water is still running. The question is who governs it.”

THE VISION

Momi' Jokoj' is 3,200 acres of ancestral Nisenan territory on what maps calls Raccoon Creek. We envision this land return as a means to build a full-scale Indigenous food sovereignty campus: a place where Native communities grow their own food, teach their own children, and govern their own land, on their own terms.

This is not a park. It is not a preserve managed on behalf of Native people by someone else. It is sovereign land, held and stewarded by the Nisenan and their partner nations — for the people, the water, and the land itself.

THE ASK

$13M will complete the purchase of these lands and return them permanently to Indigenous hands. We seek $500,000 from the community for earnest money and to continue our campaign with private funders. We ask you for an investment in the return of what was taken, and a working model of Indigenous-led stewardship for the entire Sierra Nevada bioregion.

Invest in Momi’ Jokoj’. Invest in Running Waters. Invest in the future that was always supposed to be.

Here is where human and non-human mothers can together once again find refuge and security — to carry on the sacred work of raising future generations. Here is where we reconnect to our most important teachers: the voice of the land, and our elders.

We are not asking you to donate to a cause. We are asking you to make a once-in-a-lifetime investment — in land that will feed families, restore watersheds, carry cultural fire back onto the landscape, and return sovereignty to the people who never stopped belonging here.

Every dollar compounds in interest, across seven Tribal generations, towards our future and our past.

This window is open right now. Land doesn’t wait. And we have already waited long enough.

171 years is long enough.

Join the campaign right now. Give what you can. Share what you believe. This land will not wait — and neither will history.