Land Back - Snohomish

10/31/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/Txn3LZocDXztEv1D/

11/21/2023

WHAT IT IS...
It can mean disrupting the power of white supremacy and continued colonization.
Allowing access to public and private lands for traditional cultural and spiritual ceremonies, gathering of traditional medicines and subsistence foods.
Returning the land to tribal stewardship. Tenure and governance.
Recreating reciprocity with the earth by implementing traditional knowledge and allowing the earth to live in her natural state.
Raising funds to help support these ongoing efforts.
Returning the land to Indigenous people who were forcibly removed and dispossessed from this land.
It all starts with Deep listening AND BEING TEACHABLE

11/05/2023

10/25/2023

https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2023/07/stolen-indigenous-land

Mount Rushmore, like so much of the land now known as the United States, once belonged to Indigenous people. In fact, it’s a holy mountain to the Lakota. Here’s why we need to give it back.

10/18/2023

https://www.science.org/content/article/native-tribes-have-lost-99-their-land-united-states

New data set quantifies Indigenous land dispossession and forced migration

10/18/2023

https://www.reckon.news/justice/2023/10/perspectives-why-rematriate-is-a-more-inclusive-term-for-returning-land-to-indigenous-peoples.html

In a world where unfettered patriarchal violence and greed has brought us to the precipice of a climate extinction, ReMatriation is a call to reestablish Indigenous landscapes and give stolen power back to the feminine

10/18/2023

A new art installation asks people and institutions to go beyond land acknowledgements — and give property back to Indigenous tribes.

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/10/1204803003/an-anti-worlds-fair-makes-its-case-give-land-back-to-native-americans.

10/18/2023

The movement

On July 3, 2020, Land Defenders took to Mt.Rushmore to reignite the fight for the Black Hills and the closure of Mt. Rushmore, a symbol of white supremacy an...

10/09/2023

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2023-3-fall/feature/how-land-back-movement-unraveling-manifest-destiny

Across Indian Country, tribal nations are buying back their land one parcel at a time

10/09/2023

https://broadview.org/churches-landback/

The returns come as some mainline Protestant Christian denominations have repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery

10/09/2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/06/can-indigenous-landback-movement-secure-self-determination/

History from Iowa suggests that it can.