Outreach materials
- Shaded relief map of Juristac/Sargent Ranch with proposed sand and gravel mine features, to visualize impacts. Prepared in 2019 by the GreenInfo Network.
- Half-sheet handbill style Protect Juristac flyer, print ready (2021) (NEW)
- Simple outreach flyer — 8.5×11 single sided, for printing in color or black and white.
- "I signed the petition, what else can I do?"— handbill flyer, 2-up, double sided (Aug. 2021)
- Intro to the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s Campaign to Protect Juristac (3 page PDF)
- Petition to Protect Juristac (PDF) — for in-person outreach and tabling. Designed to be printed on 8.5×11 paper at 100% size, for use with a clipboard.
- Protect Juristac donation page that may be shared on social media, etc
- Chairman Lopez speaks at United Nations about Juristac 4/17/18 – 3:30 min, YouTube
- Juristac: A short film by Ariel Bobbett — 4 minutes, 2018. Available via YouTube and Facebook.
- Amah Mutsun Tribal Chairman Valentin Lopez’s Perspective on Juristac by Stanford Journalism 1/28/2020. 3 minutes.
- ACLU NorCal webpage on the Campaign to Protect Juristac
Textos en español
- Proteja a Juristac, apoye la supervivencia cultural Indígena (2-up PDF)
- Protege Terrenos Sagrados de los Amah Mutsun (PDF)
- Petición al Condado de Santa Clara (PDF)
Community Support
- Friends of Juristac, Santa Cruz County / Facebook page / email: friendsofjuristac [at] gmail.com
- Friends of Juristac, San Jose / South Bay Indigenous Solidarity / email: indigenoussolidarity [at] protonmail.com
- South County for Protecting Juristac (South Santa Clara County/Gilroy/Morgan Hill)
- Kallentaruk (Watsonville) for Protecting Juristac
- Stanford Protect Juristac Coalition— email stanford [at] protectjuristac.org
Press coverage to date
- KCBS Radio 4/17/22: Tribal leaders try to stop construction of a quarry on sacred land
- San Francisco Chronicle 4/1/22: Ranch owner wants to raze hills near Gilroy for a gravel quarry. Tribal leaders say the land is sacred (front page story) | PDF article copy
- Santa Cruz Goodtimes 3/31/22: PV Arts Exhibit Highlights Indigenous Stewardship
(article highlights Juristac) - Making Contact 3/16/22: Juristac and the Amah Mutsun: Indigenous Resistance and Regeneration (30 min. podcast)
- Native News Online 12/20/21: Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of Costanoan/Ohlone Continue Working to Protect Sacred Land
- Gilroy Dispatch 11/10/21: Human rights commission opposes Sargent Mine
- San Jose Spotlight 11/8/21: Proposed mine near Gilroy a human rights issue, says commission
- KION 5/46 News 6/5/21: Lummi Nation’s traveling totem pole makes a stop in Gilroy to highlight threatened sacred lands
- Santa Cruz City Newsroom 2/12/20: City Council Passes Resolution in Support of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s Efforts to Preserve Open Space
- SJSU News 2/6/20: Advocates petition to preserve sacred land
- Peninsula Press 1/31/20: Santa Clara County considers proposed sand mining operation on indigenous sacred land
- San Jose Inside 1/17/20: Morgan Hill Supports Amah Mutsun Tribe, Opposes Proposed Sargent Ranch Gravel Mine
- Morgan Hill Times 1/16/20: Council supports tribe, opposes mine proposal [also published in the Gilroy Times
- CBS News (KPIX) 1/16/20: Tribe Asks Morgan Hill to Oppose Sand Mine on Sacred Land
- KQED FM 1/16/20: 1-minute live radio segment re: Morgan Hill Juristac resolution
- ABC7 News 1/15/20: Morgan Hill throws support behind tribal band in effort to preserve sacred land in South Bay
- Santa Cruz Good Times 12/31/19: Silicon Valley Construction Boom Threatens Local Tribal Land
- Medium 12/2/19: Quarry Quarrel: The fight for Juristac is shaping up to be Silicon Valley’s own Standing Rock (republished from San Jose Inside)
- San Jose Inside 11/28/19: Fight over Proposed Sargent Ranch Quarry is Shaping Up to be Silicon Valley’s Standing Rock
- Hollister Free Lance 11/7/19: Environmental report on proposing mining operation at Sargent Ranch expected soon
- Aptos Times 10/18/19: Walking to Renew the Sacred
- Harker Aquila 10/1/29: Local tribe protests Santa Clara County mining operation
- Benitolink 9/15/19: Community walks for Juristac
- NBC Bay Area 7/10/19: Battle Brewing Over Native American Land in Gilroy
- CBS News (KPIX) 7/10/19: Massive Santa Clara County Sand Mine Project Opposed By Native American Tribe
- Mercury News 7/9/19: “This is definitely a local Standing Rock”: Sargent Ranch
- Santa Cruz Sentinel 6/30/2019: Battle for Sargent Ranch to heat up
- San Jose Spotlight 3/23/2019: Native tribe opposes Sargent Ranch quarry project on sacred land
- Santa Cruz Sentinel 1/11/2019: Amah Mutsun Tribal Band hopes to protect sacred land from development
- City on a Hill Press 10/5/2017: Sacred Site Slated for Development— Amah Mutsun oppose proposed gravel mine
- BenitoLink 12/11/2016: Citing cultural degradation and religious desecration, local tribe opposes mining project
- San Jose Inside 11/30/2016: Proposed Gravel Mine Would Violate Sacred Ground
- Gilroy Dispatch 11/4/2016: Local Native American Mining Battle Brewing
- SV Business Journal 1/27/2016: After foreclosure, new plan for 6,400-acre Sargent Ranch south of Gilroy
Official documents:
Links updated in October 2021
- Notice of Preparation of an EIR for the Sargent Quarry Project (7/21/2016)
- Sargent Quarry Project Description
- Santa Clara Dept. of Planning and Development webpage for Sargent Quarry project (contains links to additional technical reports, site plans and maps submitted by the applicant
- Sargent Quarry Mining and Reclamation Plan (11/7/2015)
- County of Santa Clara, Board of Supervisors 1/23/18 Board Referral: Direct Administration to work with interested conservation partners and property owners to explore the opportunity to acquire the property or easements to conserve all or some of the 6,500 acres that comprise the property commonly known as Sargent Ranch. (Approved unanimously)
- Biotic Evaluation for Sargent Ranch Quarry by Live Oak Associates (3/12/2015) [Alt. link]
- Geotechnical Slope Stability Analysis Report for Sargent Ranch Quarry Site (12/10/2015)
- Sargent Quarry Promotional Slideshow by Freeman & Associates (2016)
- Santa Clara County Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA) info
Regional Conservation and Habitat Planning
- Green Foothills: Juristac/Sargent Ranch Campaign
- Bay Area Conservation Lands Network— home of the Bay Area Critical Linkages Project
- Santa Clara County Conservation Greenprint (Sargent Hills are a Conservation Focus Area)
- Final Santa Clara Valley Habitat Plan
- America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2006 (PDF report) – the Pajaro River, on p. 13, is listed as the #1 most endangered river.
- Pajaro Compass webmap— learn more about the Pajaro River watershed
Tribal resolutions and statements
- Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Resolution No. 03-2016 opposing the Sargent Quarry Project on Unique Ancestral Tribal Lands at Juristac
- 10/31/16 Press Release: Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Opposes Sargent Ranch Quarry Project near Gilroy, California
- Sargent Quarry Project— Request for Tribal Consultation – filed in October 2016 with County of Santa Clara
- 4/12/2018 Press Release: Amah Mutsun Tribal Chairman Speaks at United Nations to Call for Protection of Tribal Sacred Site from Surface Mining Proposal
Sargent Quarry and Sargent Ranch promotional websites
Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
- Amah Mutsun Land Trust website
- Amah Mutsun Tribal Band website
- The Case of California’s Amah Mutsun by E. Richard Hart, published in the journal Western Legal History, 2003 — a scholarly review of the legal history of the dispossession of Mutsun people from their ancestral lands, with a focus on the case of Rancho Juristac (Sargent Ranch).
- Justice for Juristac: Using International and Comparative Law to Protect Indigenous Lands— article in the Santa Clara Journal of International Law (2020)
- San Juan Bautista Recognition of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
- Video: Here and Now— by Bay Area Open Space Council, 2015. 18 minutes. Documents the work of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust and Tribal Stewardship Corps.
- Video: Excavating the past; Improving the future— by UC Berkeley, 2018. 4 minutes. Portrays ongoing collaboration between the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and UC Berkeley archaeologists and anthropologists.
- Video: UMUNHUM by Plus M Productions, 2017. 11 minutes.
- Four Current Threats to Sacred Lands of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band (2021, PDF, 1 page)
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