Cedar Moon

As of this review I am a member of the Sacred Land Alliance collective that resides on Tryon Life Community farm. I have lived here since 2018. I am an Indigenous woman from a reservation in Northern Arizona. I am writing this review for POC and specifically Indigenous people who are considering joining the Cedar Moon Collective. I have voiced to CM how they have harmed previous POC and Indigenous people who were members of their collective and past members of SLA. My collective (SLA) and specifically myself have asked them to enact restorative justice and give up the power that Cedar Moon as a collective yields over this land project. As of writing this review nothing is being done to actually practice Land Back and equity between the dominant collective and Sacred Land Alliance. There is opportunity for CM to operate in good relation with the current Indigenous people on the land and the Indigenous community of Portland rather than tokenize and recruit Indigenous people who are experiencing housing insecurity in order to be able to triangulate us against each other. The use of brown people to maintain power over this land project and to deflect the accountability that is currently being asked is a colonial tactic of conquer and divide. If CM is asking you to be a part of their collective without making introductions to the current indigenous family who resides here; that should be a red flag and it’s intentional. I am willing to have a conversation about my lived experience and the harms I have witnessed the dominant collective perpetrate against POC with anymore who is willing to to hear me out. Come see me.

Worst group ever.