Whether stewardship rights, such as those granted through land trusts and the like, constitute Land Back is a great question. The question and its framing are instructive of the very issues the ...

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As of last week, faculty at Ohio State University can no longer make land acknowledgments—verbal or written statements that recognize the Indigenous people who originally lived on the university’s ...

Ohio State University twice revised its policy on Indigenous land acknowledgments following the passage of a new state law. The law, Ohio Senate Bill 1, bans public universities from taking ...

Honestly, it’s all ancestral land. We thought like Natives do. We thought the settlers would never disturb their own graves, and so you think that [ours] would never be disturbed. As Natives, we think ...

Meaghan Weatherdon has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Northern Scientific Training Program, the Ontario Graduate Student Scholarship fund, the ...

BLISS, MI – The word for fire in the Native language of Great Lakes Anishinaabe is “Ishkode.” Fire was a historically frequent and recurring element of the Michigan landscape before the era of fire ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The 2025 U.N. climate conference, COP30, will run from Nov. 10-21 in Belém, Brazil, and is expected to host the largest participation of Indigenous ...

Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both Indigenous peoples and their allies, have traveled to the COP30 U.N. climate conference in Belém, Brazil. On Friday night, an Indigenous-led march arrived ...

Scholars have spent years studying Harvard’s colonial-era land holdings in New England. Now, undergraduate research on the University’s ownership of Indigenous land in Maine is helping push the ...