The Path to Justice: Tribal Voices on Land Back

Join us for a FREE, virtual panel discussion with Tribal voices on Land Back. This will be a 2-hour event with Q&A at the end.

Land justice for Tribal communities has been happening since the early 20th century, starting with Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934, which ended the allotment period, saw the return of surplus lands, and Tribes buying land. The Land Back movement is a modern extension of land justice, and started gaining traction around 2018. The goals of the Land Back movement are to reclaim political, economic, cultural sovereignty of ancestral homelands. Other goals include environmental stewardship, cultural revival, and climate action. Other examples of Land Back include co-management/stewardship, implementation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), including Indigenous sovereignty in conservation easements, and more.