#KristiNoem: "[America is] Not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes." Yeah, Kristi. Exactly what the #NativeAmericans were thinking!

#LandBack #LandbackMovement #WhiteInvaders #SettlerColonialism #SettlerColonialLies

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

You cannot convince me that Braddah IZ was not, in some way or another, divine. He was more than a gifted musician. He was a gift to humankind, and he returned to the sea too soon. I'm not Hawaiian, but his voice was what convinced me of the truth about #landback #LandBackMovement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I

I want more of this! 20,000 bison is a start, but we need a lot more.

#landback #LandBackMovement

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-01-03/these-tribes-are-getting-a-slice-of-their-land-back-under-the-condition-that-they-preserve-it

#landbackmovement: In what would be a novel arrangement, the deed is expected to include a coalition of five tribes as co-owners and managers with Wildlands — an effort to acknowledge the history of the land, which the conservation group named Cottonwood Wash.
“There are once tribes that lived in these areas that were forcibly removed,” said Davina Smith, a member of the Diné, or Navajo, who has worked with different organizations to protect land in the Four Corners region. “We have to recognize that”

We must teach the true story of the horrors & atrocities committed against the indigenous people, which are ongoing, and they’re directly linked to what Israel’s been doing to Palestinians, by the way.

#LandBackMovement
#IndigenousLivesMatter
#Indigenous

https://www.tiktok.com/@sallyhatescapitalism2/video/7304721412751625514

#LandBackMovement
#USA
#Indigenous

https://www.tiktok.com/@genxagnostic1/video/7291069971419893035