Corrina Gould
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Born | Oakland |
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Corrina Gouldis a spokeswoman and Tribal Chair of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone, a non-profit organization.[1]She identifies as aChochenyoand aKarkinOhlonewoman[2]and is a long-time activist who works to protect, preserve, and reclaim ancestral lands of the Ohlone peoples.[3][2]TheOhlone peoplelive in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, and Gould's organization, specifically, is located in the East Bay, in regions now occupied by Oakland, Berkeley, and beyond.[4][5]
Early life
[edit]Gould was born Corrina Emma Tucker, on November 12, 1965,[6]and grew up in Oakland, California;
Corrina Tucker married Paul Gould Jr. (1964-2021), and took his name. Paul Gould Jr. passed away in 2021.
Career
[edit]Gould worked full time at the American Indian Child Resource Center for 12years, running an after school program that provides services for Native students in Oakland.[2]She has a prolific history co-founding and working with a number of activist organizations.
She is the Tribal Chair for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone, and a co-founder of the Sogorea Te Land Trust as well as Indian People Organizing for Change.[2]
Gould was the producer of several documentaries about Ohlone peoples and other Native peoples. Her films include Buried Voices (2012), Injunuity (2013), and Beyond Recognition (2014).[7]
In addition, Gould is a member of the board of directors for the Oakland Street Academy Foundation.[8]
Major campaigns
[edit]As the lead organizer for the group Indian People Organizing for Change (IPOC), Gould has worked for over two decades to preserve and protect OhloneShellmounds,the ancient burial sites of her ancestors.[9]She is a cofounder of IPOC, which sponsored the Shellmound Peace Walk 2005–2009 and currently works to protect theWest Berkeley Shellmound.[10][11]She has also led the campaign to collect a Shuumi Land Tax in order to return land to Indigenous people through the Sogorea Te Land Trust.[12]
Gould is currently focused on the West Berkeley Shellmound, at the site of the earliest known habitation in the Bay Area,[13]the subterranean portions of which are currently covered by a parking lot. A developer with plans to build high density housing on that spot has been stopped by the City of Berkeley, motivated by Gould's activism.[14]In 2000 the Berkeley City Council named the spot an historic landmark,[15]and in September, 2020, the National Trust for Historic Preservation declared the site as one of the 11 “most endangered historic places” in the United States.[16]Although the developer tried to get a streamlined approval process which would not have included as much public comment, the City did not pass that request and a judge further backed the City in a subsequent lawsuit.[14]Gould and the IPOC have continued to advocate throughout for the preservation of the remaining portions of their sacred site.[17]
In April 2011, Gould,Johnella LaRose,Wounded Knee De Ocampo, and other held a sit-in atSogorea Te,a sacred site in the current city ofVallejo, CA,that lasted 109 days.[18]The occupation led to a cultural easement between the City of Vallejo, the Greater Vallejo Recreation District, and two federally recognized tribes.[19]
References
[edit]- ^SURJ Bay Area (2017-09-05)."Living On Ohlone Land — What We Learned From Indigenous Women Leaders".Medium.Retrieved 2020-12-13.
- ^abcd"Corrina Gould".Women's Earth Alliance.Retrieved 2020-12-13.
- ^"Corrina Gould Defends Her Ancestors".Sacred Land.Retrieved 2020-12-13.
- ^"Impact of Spanish Colonization (U.S. National Park Service)".www.nps.gov.Retrieved 2020-12-13.
- ^"Lisjan (Ohlone) History & Territory".The Sogorea Te Land Trust.Retrieved 2020-12-13.
- ^Alameda County Birth Certificate #65-311826
- ^"Corrina Gould".IMDb.Retrieved2020-12-13.
- ^Next Economy Now Podcast (2018-06-13)."Corrina Gould: Sacred Sites Work and Our Collective Responsibility as Weavers of Healing".Medium.Retrieved2020-12-13.
- ^"Indian People Organzing for Change (IPOC) and the Sogorea Te Occupation".Found SF.August 2014.Archivedfrom the original on 2015-04-05.
- ^"Shellmounds".Indian People Organizing for Change.Archivedfrom the original on 2013-10-08.
- ^Luckey, Micki; Pluss, AJ (September 3, 2017)."Living On Ohlone Land — What We Learned From Indigenous Women Leaders".Showing Up for Racial Justice.Medium.Archivedfrom the original on 2017-09-04.
- ^"Shuumi Land Tax".Sogorea Te' Land Trust.Archivedfrom the original on 2020-09-25.
- ^"Berkeley Landmarks:: The Shellmound".berkeleyheritage.com.Retrieved2020-12-14.
- ^ab"Judge rules for Berkeley in developer's lawsuit over Spenger's parking lot".Berkeleyside.2019-10-23.Retrieved2020-12-14.
- ^WOLLENBERG, CHARLES (2008).Berkeley: A City in History(1 ed.). University of California Press.ISBN978-0-520-25307-0.JSTOR10.1525/j.ctt1ppx83.
- ^Staff, Taylor Rudman | (2020-09-25)."West Berkeley Shellmound and Village Site named 1 of 11 most endangered historic sites in US".The Daily Californian.Retrieved2020-12-13.
- ^McLeod, Toby. "In Recognition of Indigenous Peoples' Day: Lisjan Ohlone Leader Corrina Gould to Brief Berkeley City Council on the History of the West Berkeley Shellmound and Village Site on Tuesday, October 13. "Press Release. October 13, 2020.
- ^"Corrina Gould".Women's Earth Alliance.Archivedfrom the original on 2020-09-23.
- ^"These Indigenous Women Are Reclaiming Stolen Land in the Bay Area".Yes! Magazine.Retrieved2020-12-14.
- 21st-century Native Americans
- 21st-century Native American women
- American people who self-identify as being of Ohlone descent
- Native American people from California
- Native American activists
- Activists from the San Francisco Bay Area
- People from the San Francisco Bay Area
- People from Alameda County, California
- Living people