The Case for Returning U.S. #PublicLands to #IndigenousPeople

by Joe Whittle, Mar 6, 2025

"Since the start of Trump’s second term, his administration has fired thousands of federal workers across multiple public lands agencies, including the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The effects of this are vast: It’s going to have a profoundly negative impact on the environment and the way millions of Americans enjoy public lands, cause immeasurable harm to America’s wildest places, and devastate the economies built around them.

"After serving 12 years as a backcountry wilderness ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, I'm convinced there is an alternative: the U.S. needs to return its public lands to Native Americans. In fact, I believe that might be the only way to save our parks and forests from corporate privatization and destruction, as well as preserve public access to them. If the U.S. won’t properly care for its public lands, why not return them to their original caretakers?

"This isn’t a new idea. #NativeAmericans argued that treaty law required
'abandoned' federal land to be returned to tribes during the occupation of #Alcatraz Island by the #AmericanIndianMovement in the 1960s. In more recent years, the #LandbackMovement has given rise to increased calls for the return of territorial land to #IndigenousNations, and the return of land management based in #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge—expertise gathered from thousands of years of having deep relationships with specific environments. There’s a strong legal argument that land return is constitutionally required as damages due for hundreds of treaty violations. However, there’s also a lot of data showing Indigenous land management is more ecologically sound than government or industrially managed land. For instance, #ProjectDrawdown, a global leader in science-based #ClimateChange solutions, estimates that returning 1,000 million hectares of land to Indigenous tenureship by 2050 would sequester over 12 gigatons of carbon dioxide."

Read more:
https://time.com/7262838/us-public-lands-return-indigenous-people/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/QnF32

#LandBack #AIM #StolenLand #StolenLands #NationalParks #TEK #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousPeoplesMonth #GiveItBack #Stewardship #LandIsLife #WaterIsLife #AlcatrazIsland #Resistance #USPol #TrumpSucks #RespectTheTreaties

I always said: the suppression of palestinian people by Israël is the biggest injustice supported by the western countries after the abolition of apartheid.

I don't say that anymore..

Meanwhile it is probably a bigger injustice then Apartheid ever was.

#gaza #BIG #genocide #boycottisrael
#christenenvoorisrael #Iloveisrael #bibi
#uitverkorenvolk #giveitback #

Ik had er geen woorden meer voor,
anderen gelukkig nog wel

#gaza #BIG #genocide #boycottisrael
#christenenvoorisrael #Iloveisrael #bibi
#cda #giveitback #christenunie #vvd

Intel’s job cuts come after taking billions in government subsidies to keep and grow jobs:

#technology #intel
#giveitback

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-massive-job-cuts-come-021511283.html

I used to love watching the #American version of the #AntiquesRoadshow.

I’m traveling and came across the #British version on one of these tv channels, and they just keep reminding me about #colonialism and #colonization.

So many #people #celebrating #looted items from their #families’ questionable #histories.

The hosts frequently ask what their guests plan to do with their “good #fortunes”, and I just don’t hear anyone saying #GiveItBack

#stolen #history #looting #entitlement #racism

What sort of scumbag steals the urn from a grave? even if it is a famous grave??

Vivienne Westwood's urn has been stolen :(

#UrnStolen
#GiveItBack

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-65739844

There's no controversy really. The #Kohinoor was stolen from what was British India, and should be given back. Simple.
#NoDebate #GiveItBack #Decolonise

BBC News - Controversial diamond won't be used in coronation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64638152