LAND BACK RESOURCES

LAND BACK, LAND RIGHTS, AND JURISDICTION

Our movements have had a profound impact. Increasingly, settler descendents who hold legal title to land are committing themselves to justice through giving land back. We are seeing more legal cases over stolen land being won; more non-Indigenous organizations reaching out to learn from, and partner with Indigenous Nations to support Land Back; and more action being taken by Indigenous families and collectives to liberate our lands from the entanglement and dispossession caused by the Dawes Allotment Act or other strategies of dispossession.

Yellowhead Institute Land Back Red Paper (CANADA)

US BASED INDIGENOUS LAND RESOURCES

US Department of Interior Land Buy Back (Fee into Trust process)

https://www.doi.gov/buybackprogram

Indian Land Tenure Foundation:

Support to navigate ownership, regulation, estate planning, legal resources, education, grant resources.

https://iltf.org

Indian Land Capital Company

Recovery, management, jurisdiction over alienated tribal land, consolidating undivided interests in land with fractionated ownership. Elimination of “checkerboarding” (mixed patterns of land ownership and jurisdictions) on reservations. Native Owned Community Development Financial Institution offering loans and support for land acquisition, and investment into work that cares for the land.

www.ilcc.net

First Nations Development Institute Stewarding Native Lands Program

Knowledge sharing and partnership for Indigenous land care

https://www.firstnations.org/our-programs/stewarding-native-lands/

Native American Rights Fund

Legal Support for Land Back initiatives

www.narf.org

ADVOCACY/PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

First Light Learning Journey

First Light is a collaboration in Maine between hundreds of leaders, 65 organizations and Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Mi’kmaq Communities to re-learn history, recenter Indigenous voice and to return land, resources and power.

https://firstlightlearningjourney.net

Trust for Public Land

TPL has partnered with Indigenous Nations to support Land Back.

www.tpl.org

Nature Conservancy Indigenous Lands and Communities Program

Nature Conservancy partners to support Land Back in the US and Canada

https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/who-we-are/how-we-work/community-led-conservation/?tab_q=tab_container-tab_element

Nature United Canada

Nature United partners to support Land Back in Canada

www.natureunited.ca