About Us

Nvn-nes-’a Land Trust is a grassroots 501(c)3 nonprofit Land Trust that was founded in 2023 by four Siletz Tribal members with a mission to provide safe opportunities for Native people to return to Southern Oregon and our coastal homelands to practice our ways of life and strengthen our connection with our families and extended kin. Through land acquisitions and partnerships with conservation organizations, we are working to get our homelands back in Native hands. We see the revitalization of Indigenous land management as a key part of caring for the land and people who live there. We know that fulfilling our responsibility to care for our homelands will also bring us healing, and help to repair the fractures in our community that exist today. 

Our vision is of a future where our people are practicing our ways of life throughout our homelands and wherever we live today. We see wellness for our people and lands when our lives are grounded in our cultural values and our relationships with land and each other are reciprocal and we see strength in passing on our teachings to the next generations. 

Our Name: Nvn-nes-’a is the word for “earth” in Nuu-wee-ya’, the language of our SW Oregon Dv-ne people.