Cha Tumenma Land Project Infrastructure support

The Cha Tumenma Land Project is led by Esther Stutzman, a Kalapuya elder and her descendants in the southern Willamette Valley. They are in the midst of a land rematriation project on over 200 acres in their traditional territory, where they plan to solidify a permanent space for Native youth summer camps they've been running for decades, create a community garden, practice cultural fire and on-site sustainable forestry. The Kalapuya elder leading this project helped create and recently published the first Kalapuyan dictionary, and the land-based and cultural work is unique to anything in the area. "The primary intent of the Komemma Cultural Protection Association (KCPA) shall be to involve Native youth in awareness of their culture and traditions using research, cultural knowledge and related activities."

 

In the midst of this land rematriation project, the family is in need of a UTV side-by-side and other physical infrastructure to be able to explore and tend their land, as well as tour other Native elders and disabled folks on the land.