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In 2020, just months after George Floyd\u2019s murder<\/a>, then-President Donald Trump visited South Dakota\u2019s Mount Rushmore<\/a> as part of an Independence Day celebration and used to rally his right-wing supporters with a \u201cdark and divisive speech<\/a>.\u201d Complete with a showy fireworks display and fighter-jet flyover, the affair satisfied his longtime desire to mark the Fourth of July standing before the \u201cShrine of Democracy.\u201d But the occasion served as another rallying cry as well. <\/p><\/div>

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“We see Land Back everywhere now, and that\u2019s because this is a decentralized movement that isn\u2019t driven by just one organization or leader. It\u2019s truly a movement.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For almost three hours before the event, about 150 protesters\u2014many of them Native Americans\u2014blockaded the road<\/a> that leads to the controversial national monument<\/a>. Carrying signs<\/a> reading, \u201cYou Are On Stolen Land\u201d and \u201cHonor All Treaties,\u201d the activists were contesting Trump\u2019s policies, standing in solidarity with the worldwide Black Lives Matter movement<\/a>, and calling for the return of land to Indigenous peoples\u2014namely South Dakota\u2019s sacred Black Hills<\/a>. They faced off with local law enforcement and National Guard soldiers in riot gear, eventually disbanding following the arrest of 21 people.<\/p>\n

Among those apprehended was Nick Tilsen<\/a>, the Oglala Lakota president and CEO of NDN Collective<\/a>, a Native-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power, which has been on the frontlines of the fight to return land to tribal communities. (The charges against him were dropped<\/a> in December 2022.)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Nick Tilsen during a Land Back march in Rapid City. (Photo credit: Willi White)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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\u201cThe Land Back movement<\/a> is much older than 2020, but that was a catalyzing moment,\u201d he says. \u201cWe had the entire White House press corps here, and we wanted to amplify this authentic Indigenous narrative at that very specific time in history when we were seeing statues getting toppled and Confederate flags being lowered around the country. We see Land Back everywhere now, and that\u2019s because this is a decentralized movement that isn\u2019t driven by just one organization or leader. It\u2019s truly a movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

In so many ways, the Black Hills\u2014known as Paha Sapa in Lakota\u2014serve as a striking symbol of the Land Back movement. As detailed in the popular 2022 documentary Lakota Nation vs. United States<\/em><\/a>, the western South Dakota mountain range is considered sacred by area tribal nations and was long a key hunting ground<\/a> for bison, pronghorn, elk, and deer. Its unlawful seizure nearly 150 years ago remains a major point of contention.<\/p>\n

As colonialism swept across what would become the United States during the 19th century with blatant disregard for the land\u2019s original inhabitants, Native peoples fought off settler and military encroachment of their hunting<\/a>, fishing<\/a>, and gathering<\/a> territories. Their lifeways\u2014and foodways\u2014were hugely altered and restricted.<\/p>\n

Deadly clashes on the Great Plains prompted the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868<\/a>, which created the Great Sioux Reservation<\/a> spanning 60 million acres around the Black Hills. But after gold was discovered in the mountains, the federal government redrew the treaty lines and seized the Black Hills in 1877, an act the nine tribes comprising the Great Sioux Nation have contested since that time.<\/p>\n

In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the land had been illegally taken and awarded more than $100 million in reparations (though the land was not returned). The tribes refused<\/a> to take the money, even as it grew to a value of more than $1 billion, because the Black Hills were never for sale.<\/p>\n

Native peoples have lost nearly 99 percent<\/a> of their historical land base in the U.S., according to recent research. With it, they lost access to important hunting and fishing grounds as well as myriad places to gather and prepare food.<\/p>\n

“I often choose the word rematriation over Land Back, because I hope that it can transcend the narrow Western\/imperial concept of land ownership and tenure.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For Tilsen and other Native thought leaders, the contemporary Land Back movement is about championing Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and economic opportunity while pushing back against long-standing discriminatory policies that continue to cause tribal communities undue hardships, including disproportionate poverty rates<\/a>, outsized food insecurity<\/a>, marked health disparities<\/a>, and lower life expectancies<\/a>. But it\u2019s also about a powerful yearning to rebuild relationships to actual places\u2014and the countless living things that inhabit them.<\/p>\n

In Montana, for example, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes<\/a> now oversee 18,000 acres<\/a> where bison roam once again. In Nebraska, the Ponca<\/a> people have been growing their sacred corn<\/a> on farmland signed back<\/a> to them in 2018. In New York, the Onondaga Nation<\/a> is cleaning up the polluted waterways, once abundant with fish, on 1,000 returned acres.<\/p>\n

In Minnesota, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe<\/a> recently secured 12,000 acres within Chippewa National Forest<\/a>, an important area for hunting,\u00a0fishing, gathering, and harvesting wild rice<\/a>. And in California, the Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council<\/a> (made up of 10 area tribal nations) is stewarding coho salmon and steelhead trout within a 523-acre property managed in partnership with the Save the Redwoods League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mohawk seed keeper and farmer Rowen White<\/a> prefers to think of this revolution as rematriation. \u201cI often choose the word rematriation over Land Back, because I hope that it can transcend the narrow Western\/imperial concept of land ownership and tenure,\u201d she wrote recently on Instagram<\/a>. \u201cRematriation is in service to restoring relationality with the land and the countless more-than-human kin held within that land. Relationships-back. Loving interspecies reciprocity-back. Caring songs sung to the land that holds the bones of our ancestors-back.\u201d<\/p>\n

For White and many other food sovereignty<\/a> activists, the movement to return ancestral homelands to their rightful tribal communities is inherently intertwined with the movement to revitalize Indigenous foodways. She points out that the massive land loss Native peoples experienced due to settler colonialism\u2014more than 1.5 billion acres<\/a> across the U.S., according to eHistory\u2019s Invasion of America<\/a> project\u2014has hugely impacted their abilities to hunt, fish, forage, and farm.<\/p>\n

As Tilsen mentions, Land Back predates that 2020 catalyzing moment at Mount Rushmore and the many modern-day grassroots efforts taking place across the globe. Alvin Warren<\/a> was studying history at Dartmouth<\/a> in the late 1980s when Santa Clara Pueblo<\/a> tribal leaders tapped him to help resolve a decades-old Indian Claims Commission<\/a> claim to regain some of their traditional homelands in modern-day New Mexico. Upon seeing his 221-page thesis paper on the history of his people\u2019s homelands, the tribal council asked him to start a land acquisition program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was 21 years old and had no idea how to even do that,\u201d he recalls. \u201cBut I took it on, and we spent the better part of a decade collectively doing things we had only dreamed of. We were able to get three pieces of legislation through Congress, raise nearly $5 million, and get back more than 7,500 acres. That might not sound like a lot, but it was transformational for us because we had been hitting up against the same wall for well over a century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warren helped the people of Santa Clara Pueblo regain more than 16,000 acres of their ancestral homelands, then answered the call from other tribal nations around the country to assist in reacquiring titles, entering into co-management agreements, and otherwise protecting their traditional lands. He went on to become the director of the Trust for Public Land<\/a>\u2019s tribal land program, the lieutenant governor of Santa Clara Pueblo, and eventually New Mexico\u2019s Indian Affairs cabinet secretary.<\/p>\n

His passion was reignited with the Biden administration\u2019s historic appointment of Deb Haaland<\/a> (Laguna Pueblo) as interior secretary. She has ushered in a new era for a department that was once responsible for the systematic removal of Indigenous communities from their land. On her watch, thousands of acres have been returned<\/a> to Native oversight, co-stewardship programs<\/a> have been developed to protect sacred sites, and important species such as bison<\/a>, bighorn sheep<\/a>, and salmon<\/a> have been restored to tribal lands.<\/p>\n

“We know that countries that have made commitments to address climate change and biodiversity loss are falling short. The restoration of land to tribal nations would actually help many countries get back on track.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Warren acknowledges this significant progress, yet he remains unsatisfied with recent state and federal efforts to return land to Native groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, we\u2019re seeing a steady trickle of stories about land coming back into tribal control, but by and large, they are tiny bits of property,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about 1.5 billion acres that have been taken from Indigenous people; we\u2019re not going to get to anything remotely just if we\u2019re doing this at 50, 100, 1,000 acres at a time.\u201d He adds that tribes often have to repurchase these pieces of land and are often constrained by conservation easements, which place restrictions on land use and development.<\/p>\n

Tribes have also been invited to co-manage land, which both Warren and Tilsen view as an insufficient end point. \u201cIt\u2019s Land Back Lite,\u201d Tilsen says with a laugh. \u201cCo-management is a pathway for us to be able to manage our lands in better ways, but my worry is that it locks us into a longer power dynamic relationship with the federal government. What I\u2019m really interested in is returning public lands and their titles to tribes or Indigenous cooperatives and coalitions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the Land Back movement is obviously uplifting Indigenous communities, they aren\u2019t the only ones who stand to benefit from more land being in tribal possession. As the climate crisis<\/a> intensifies, so too does the clamor for real-world solutions. Increasingly, experts are turning to Native knowledge keepers and recognizing the power of traditional ecological knowledge<\/a>, including practices such as agroforestry<\/a>, fire stewardship<\/a>, regenerative agriculture<\/a>, and holistic wildlife management<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recent research backs this approach. A 2019 ScienceDirect study<\/a> showed that Native-managed lands foster as much or more biodiversity than protected areas, which could be key in mitigating the negative impact of extractive agriculture<\/a>. Additionally, a 2016 World Resources Institute report<\/a> determined that securing Indigenous forestland tenure in the Amazon basin could yield economic benefits up to $1.5 trillion over a 20-year period through carbon storage, reduced pollution, and erosion control.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that countries that have made commitments to address climate change and biodiversity loss are falling short,\u201d Warren says. \u201cThe restoration of land to tribal nations would actually help many countries get back on track. We have more and more researchers who are making this connection between the restoration of land to Indigenous peoples and the protection of our Earth, which ultimately is the protection of all people on this planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite this compelling call to action for collective benefit, very real resistance remains due to misconceptions about the movement. \u201cLand Back triggers people\u2019s white fragility; they think we\u2019re coming for the house, the picket fence, the 2.5 kids, and the dog,\u201d Tilsen says. \u201cBut we as Indigenous people are not trying to repeat the history that was done to us. There\u2019s also this misconception that white people don\u2019t play a massive role [as] allies, when the reality is that Indigenous peoples\u2019 fight to return our land is bound up with the very future of this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tilsen has concerns about what a presidential administration change could mean for Native representation and progress, but it\u2019s not just about party lines. \u201cThe Nixon, Obama, and Biden administrations have been responsible for more actual Land Back than any other administrations,\u201d says Tilsen. \u201cDoes it matter who is in office? Hell yeah, it matters. But our success doesn\u2019t depend on one political party. We need to build power around this year\u2019s historical election and develop solutions and strategies no matter who wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

To safeguard present and future progress, Warren implores policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels to take action in creating institutionalized mechanisms for tribal nations to acquire publicly managed and owned land. On the private side, he highlights the need for legitimate funding sources, since Native communities are typically asked to buy back stolen land, and urges individuals to consider donating unused lands to local tribes and including them in their estate planning.<\/p>\n

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Kavon Ward. (Photo credit: Gabriella Angotti-Jones)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

The powerful impact of the Indigenous-led Land Back movement has sparked similar action among other marginalized groups. Reparative justice advocate Kavon Ward<\/a> is driving the Black Land Back movement<\/a>. She helped steward the 2021 return of Bruce\u2019s Beach<\/a> in California, a once-thriving Black community that was improperly seized in 1924 through eminent domain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today, Ward leads the advocacy organization Where Is My Land<\/a>, <\/u>which helps Black people discover and reclaim U.S. land taken from them. \u201cI\u2019m of the belief that you can\u2019t have equality until there\u2019s equity,\u201d she says. \u201cTrue remedy is returning what your ancestors stole from my ancestors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much like the dispossession Native peoples have experienced, Black farmers<\/a> lost about 13.5 million acres from 1920 to 1997, according to a 2022 AEA Papers and Proceedings study<\/a>. That equates to roughly $326 billion of acreage. (As of the 2017 agricultural census<\/a>, Black farmers<\/a> operated 4.7 million acres, up from 1.5 million in 1997.)<\/p>\n

In the end, the Land Back movement serves to not only support Native sovereignty but also safeguard our environment and strengthen our food systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The ceremony to return the Bruce’s Beach land back to its original stewards. (Photo credit: Starr Genyard-Swift)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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\u201cThe future of conservation in the United States is Indigenous,\u201d NDN\u2019s Tilsen affirms. \u201cThere\u2019s a massive opportunity to fight climate change and increase biodiversity while also achieving justice. Let\u2019s hold a mirror up to America and find a path forward that includes Black reparations, the return of stolen Indigenous lands to Indigenous hands, and the changing of systems that perpetuate violence and oppression. The future we\u2019re fighting for is not just a future for Indigenous people\u2014it\u2019s a future for people everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

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