{"id":20434,"date":"2022-01-27T12:08:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T17:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=20434"},"modified":"2022-01-27T12:09:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T17:09:58","slug":"peoples-world-landback-movement-gathers-momentum-around-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/01\/27\/peoples-world-landback-movement-gathers-momentum-around-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"People’s World: LandBack movement gathers momentum around the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The LandBack movement is decolonizing Indigenous land across the Americas<\/div>\r\n
Thursday, January 27, 2022<\/div>\r\n
By Albert Bender<\/div>\r\n
People's World<\/div>\r\n
peoplesworld.org<\/A><\/div>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nOver the years, there has been an ever-growing Native American movement to reclaim land stolen over the centuries. This struggle has been ongoing for decades but has picked up speed with successes over the past few years.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nSome of the recent history of this movement is in order. The LandBack movement was officially begun in 2018 by Aaron Tailfeathers, a member of the Kainai Tribe of the Blackfeet Confederacy of Canada. LandBack rapidly became a hashtag on clothes, beadwork, and other art.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nIn 2020, in response to protests at Mount Rushmore, the Indigenous organization NDN Collective drafted the LandBack Manifesto<\/a> entitled: \u201cThe Reclamation of Everything Stolen from the Original Peoples.\u201d The LandBack campaign was officially launched on Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day in 2020. The Manifesto covers land, language, ceremony, food, education, health, governance, medicine, and kinship.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nBut the basic LandBack issue is simple: \u201cGive us the land back.\u201d For many and perhaps most of the Indigenous, getting the land back is first one of economics, as the stronger an Indigenous nation is economically, the stronger it is in all other aspects of its existence: working at well-paying jobs, maintaining language and tradition, being able to hunt, engaging in farming, accessing clean water, building schools and adequate, sustainable housing, strengthening sovereignty, and expanding jurisdiction.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nAll the above are also morale and spiritual builders. So far, campaigns have been directed at public lands, including national parks and, where feasible, private lands. These objectives have not sought the vacating of anyone\u2019s home.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nBut again, first, it is about getting Indigenous lands back into Indigenous hands while working on all the other issues. There are so many facets to this struggle. This fight is not new but one that has been dreamed about and pursued in various ways for centuries, indeed since colonial times. The difference now is that more attention is coming from non-Native society. Indigenous activists are seizing the time to increase and strengthen demands. Also, LandBack campaigns are taking place not just in the U.S. but in Canada and in the Mapuche struggle in Chile.\r\n

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The objective is decolonization of the land<\/div>\r\nThere are specific, striking examples of lands heading in the direction of decolonization and being placed under tribal jurisdiction. Each tribal LandBack issue is unique. But each Indigenous nation\u2019s fight is part and parcel of a broader struggle by Native people across North America and beyond. The following examples illustrate the complexity, diversity, and similarity of these struggles. Again, these quests are directed mainly at federally-held land.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nIn 2015, the Mashpee Wampanoag reclaimed 300 acres of ancestral land after decades of efforts. The acreage was placed in federal trust status, which meant that the land could not be taken away without federal approval. This gave the tribe sovereignty over the land, enabling it to build housing and a school and have a tribal police force on the land. Subsequently, in a shocking about-face, the federal government under Trump reversed this decision, and the land\u2019s ownership was in legal limbo. But on December 22, 2021, the Biden Interior Department under Deb Haaland reversed the Trumpite decision and reinstated the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation. A great victory for Native America!\r\n

<\/P>\r\nIn 2019, the United Methodist Church returned ancestral land in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to the Wyandotte Nation<\/a> of Oklahoma. The Wyandotte Indian Mission had been established there in the early 1800s by an African American Methodist missionary, John Stewart. In 1819, the federal government had promised by treaty the Wyandotte Nation 148,000 acres in Kansas. But when the Wyandotte arrived in Kansas, there was no land available.\r\n

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<\/p>\r\nIn 2020, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Six Nations set up a roadblock on 1492 Land Back Lane to shut down a housing development on their unceded land in Ontario in Canada.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nIn July 2020, the Esselen Tribe purchased a 12,000-acre ranch near Big Sur, California, as part of a multi-million-dollar deal. This reclamation of traditional lands protects old-growth forest, wildlife, and the Little Sur River, which brings up another point: The LandBack movement protects the environment and nature.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nThe Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is laying claim to land in Illinois. Keep in mind that Chicago sits on Potawatomi land.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nThere is a demand by the Lakota people for the closure of Mount Rushmore and for the return of all public lands in the Black Hills to the \u201coriginal stewards.\u201d\r\n

<\/P>\r\nOther notable examples of land reclamation include the 2020 transfer of 11,760 acres of forest service land in the Chippewa National Forest to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe to be held in trust under the Leech Lake Reservation Restoration Act.\r\n

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