The Wiyot Tribe has already demonstrated how land return can restore balance, heal trauma, and provide opportunity. For over a century, Wiyot people have worked to remain in a reciprocal relationship with their unceded ancestral territory - through private land purchases, legal action, and more recently, voluntary land returns (see p.8-9 for a timeline of some of these events). Through this work, the Wiyot Tribe has exemplified how native and non-native peoples can exist in relationship to the land and to one another.
As the Community Land Trust of the Wiyot Tribe, Dishgamu Humboldt is the next step on this journey. Named after the Soulatluk word for love, Dishgamu Humboldt is designed to facilitate the return of Wiyot ancestral lands to Wiyot stewardship, putting land in trust for the purposes of affordable housing creation, workforce development, and environmental and cultural restoration.

Land Back
We work with community, capital, and government partners to return land to tribal ownership. Using the community land trust model, we direct land use towards three impact areas:

Affordable Housing Creation
We develop and preserve affordable and sustainable housing to allow Wiyot people to remain in their homelands while addressing our region’s dual crises of housing and climate change.

Workforce Development
We use our projects to create local living-wage jobs and green building training programs that empower our community.
Environmental and Cultural Restoration
We prioritize projects that protect and restore land with ecological, cultural, or ceremonial significance in collaboration with Wiyot Tribal Departments.

As a tribal community land trust, land is at the center of everything we do. By using the CLT model, we maintain Wiyot ownership in perpetuity, remove land from the speculative market, and direct its use in ways that build community and individual wealth.