Organizations we walk alongside

We are honored to walk closely alongside many powerful and inspiring organizations and organizers on the journey toward land justice in Wabanaki homelands. Here are organizations that we’re in active collaborations with: 

Bomazeen Land Trust is an intertribal Wabanaki land trust dedicated to social and environmental justice in Wabanakiak, to protecting and honoring culturally significant spaces through the rematriation of ancestral land and the continuance of cultural practice and presence. Land in Common works with Bomazeen on enacting and supporting land returns, and we follow Bomazeen’s lead on the trajectory of all land that is offered to or acquired by Land in Common.

Embodied Equity is a transformative collective learning process that creates rooms of joy and vulnerability while using creative practices that promote transformative healing, survivor centered wellness, and strong community coping and personal change. Land in Common has been collaborating with Embodied Equity on testing and further developing their curriculum, in part by having our Board participate in a 13 week journey in spring/summer 2022. 

First Light Learning Journey is a collaboration in Maine between 65 organizations and Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Mi’kmaq Communities to re-learn history, recenter Indigenous voice, and to return land, resources and power. Land in Common participates on the Conservation Community Delegation to the Wabanaki Commission on Land & Stewardship, and we are helping to catalyze and support the emerging Wabanaki Self-Determination Fund along with other First Light community members.

Journey ONEderland provides accessible, safe(er) space for Black, Indigenous and other People of Color (BIPOC) to retreat, co-create, learn and indulge in liberation together. Inspired by and building from the work of our late, beloved Nicole Mokeme and Rise and Shine Youth Retreat, Journey ONEderland seeks to foster meaningful relationships between people and nature through wellness retreats, residences, group therapy and outdoor programs. This work includes a vision for seeking land on which a long-term space for facilitating such work can live and thrive. Land in Common serves as a fiscal sponsor for Journey ONEderland and is committed to supporting the search for a long-term home for the Onederland vision. 

Presente! Maine is a nonprofit mutual aid organization working to empower displaced indigenous and afro-Latinx peoples of Maine through survival programs, community power building, cultural celebration, and transformative healing practice. Presente! Farm is located on Land in Common land in Greene, and we are now collaborating on the purchase of a building in Portland to serve as Presente’s permanent organizational home and community center.

Racial Equity & Justice is a Maine-based alliance of BIPOC utilizing a solution-based approach providing support to BIPOC individuals and families to survive and thrive with greater equality, justice, liberation, resources, safety, cultural wellness, healing, empowerment, and opportunity. They have shared insight, constructive challenge, and inspiration for Land in Common’s work for more than 4 years and we continue to work together on movement toward land justice.