Land Back - Snohomish

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Build To Survive - John Trudell

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

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

The US Was Founded on Stolen Indigenous Land—This July 4, Let’s Commit to Returning It 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.

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

Native tribes have lost 99% of their land in the United States New data set quantifies Indigenous land dispossession and forced migration

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

PERSPECTIVES: Why “ReMatriate” is a more inclusive term for returning land to Indigenous peoples 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

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.

The movement

HESAPA - A LANDBACK FILM 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...

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

How the Land Back Movement Is Unraveling Manifest Destiny Across Indian Country, tribal nations are buying back their land one parcel at a time

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

Churches return land to Indigenous groups as part of #LandBack movement | Broadview Magazine The returns come as some mainline Protestant Christian denominations have repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery

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

Perspective | Can the Indigenous #Landback movement secure self-determination? History from Iowa suggests that it can.