Restoring indigenous knowledge and practices to Popeloutchom - our ancestral lands

 
 
 
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Amah Mutsun Land Trust is Hiring

Cultural Burning/Fire Program Manager

The Cultural Burning/Fire Program Manager will be responsible for identifying appropriate locations to conduct cultural burn activities based on ethno-botanical, cultural archeological research and fuel reduction needs. They will also be responsible for helping prepare burn plans, securing appropriate permits and approvals, coordinating burns with project partners, and conducting the burns in conjunction with AMLT’s Native Stewardship Corps (NSC) and other Tribal members.
 
This position is also responsible for getting Native Stewardship Corps members trained and certified in all aspects of firefighting and identifying and securing the necessary equipment for the NSC to become an independent, fire-lighting/firefighting team. Lastly, this position will be responsible for developing expertise in conducting pre-fire and post fire research to document impact of cultural burns and recovery planning and implementation in collaboration with AMLT’s Native Plant Restoration and Native Stewardship Corps Program Managers.

This is a full-time, exempt, position that comes with health benefits, paid personal time off and holidays. The annual compensation is between $75,000-85,000, depending upon experience. This position will report to the Executive Director.
 
An initial review of applications will begin on August 28, 2023. For a full position description and instructions to apply, please follow this link.


The Amah Mutsun Land Trust

The Amah Mutsun Land Trust  (AMLT), an initiative of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, is the vehicle by which the Amah Mutsun access, protect, and steward lands that are integral to our identity and culture. The AMLT returns our tribe to our ancestral lands and restores our role as environmental stewards. Due to our difficult history and generations of physical, mental, and political abuses, our land stewardship practices were disrupted, and much of our culture was lost. AMLT serves not only in the re-learning of our history and restoration of indigenous management practices, it also serves as a vehicle for healing. By restoring our traditional ecological knowledge and revitalizing our relationship to Mother Earth, we also restore balance and harmony to the lands of our ancestors.

 

Our Mutsun Identity

The people of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, collectively referred to by many as “Ohlone”, are the indigenous peoples of the territories ranging from Año Nuevo to the greater Monterey Bay area.  Historically comprised of more than 20 politically distinct peoples, the modern tribe represents the surviving descendant families of  the indigenous people who survived the Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista missions. Working the lands known to them as Popeloutchom for millennia, it is the goal of AMLT to restore the Mutsun people and their knowledge to better conserve and protect these lands.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Our stewardship area stretches from Año Nuevo in the north, along the ridge-lines and west slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and Monterey Bay, south to the Salinas River and inland to include the Pajaro and San Benito watersheds.

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The Native Stewardship Corps

 

2017 Youth Stewardship Camp

Ceremony at Mt. Umunhum