“Our people have been fighting for land back and to reclaim lands since colonization.'
On its face, the land back movement involves the physical reclamation of ancestral lands by the Indigenous people who lived there for time immemorial. But to get to the heart of the matter, we must dive deeper.. The American Constitution was violated in the taking of it. So when we say ‘land back,' we're talking about actual land return," Tilsen explains.
Tilsen continues, “Land back means so much because the reality is that in the process of taking the land from Indigenous people, they created and built entire institutions — colonial and imperialistic institutions — that were designed for the purpose of taking our land and to maintain the continued theft of our land, and to continue to maintain the extractive relationship with the land. I think that's one thing we have to realize.
Colonial governments stole a lot more than the land. They took away the political and decision-making power of Indigenous nations and our right to consent to what happens to our land, people, families, and even our bodies. Our spiritual beliefs and languages were outlawed, and many of, some never to be seen or heard from again. For these reasons, land back has become a symbol of the reclamation of everything that was taken and destroyed by the architects of colonialism.
“Land back is the umbrella and it's the metanarrative for all of that work to happen," Two Bulls, who is Northern Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota, tells. "Because once Indigenous peoples reclaim our land, once we reclaim language, once we reclaim our ability to manage the land in a way that is healthy, in a way that we understand and know, I think that is going to be the answer to a lot of these issues that we are running into. And by doing that, we have to dismantle these systems.
“Part of what we're reclaiming when we say ‘land back’ is our power,” says Tilsen. Land back involves an actual shift in the power structure not of just the United States, but the world.
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