Indigenous Justice: Land Back Movement

Native Land Digital strives to create and foster conversations about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, through educational resources such as our map and Territory Acknowledgement Guide.

This is a guide to creating a meaningful territory acknowledgment. A territory acknowledgment is a way that people insert an awareness of the Indigenous presence and land rights in everyday life.

This is a brief guide for Resource Generation members and other folks with access to land to support in education and resource sharing around land reparations.

From California to Maine, land is being given back to Native American tribes who are committing to managing it for conservation. Some tribes are using traditional knowledge, from how to support wildlife to the use of prescribed fires, to protect their ancestral grounds.

Tribal and state officials gathered on March 15, 2024 to enact the official transfer of the state-owned land that was within the boundaries of Upper Sioux Agency State Park to the Upper Sioux Community (Pezihutazizi Oyate).

Speaking at Harvard Kennedy School, landback movement leader Alvin Warren MC/MPA 2013 argues for the return of land to Indigenous communities