Beyond Land Acknowledgement Resources

Below you will find an extensive but not exhaustive list of resources for learning more about the practices of land acknowledgements, the Land Back movement, and moving beyond symbolic or check-box acknowledgements. Each of these links offers self assessment questionnaires, case studies, videos, how to guides (including information on how to establish a Land Tax program or return land to Indigenous peoples), and more. You’ll find overlaps and resonances among them, and I encourage folks to spend time reading through each of the resources to find what is useful and meaningful for their own learning. These links are also meant to show the vast amount of labor already performed by Indigenous peoples on this topic, and how long these conversations have been occurring.

• Resource Generation Land Reparations and Solidarity Guide: https://resourcegeneration.org/land-reparations-indigenous-solidarity-action-guide/ 

• Native Governance Center “Guide to Indigenous Land Acknowledgement”: https://nativegov.org/news/a-guide-to-indigenous-land-acknowledgment/ 

• Native Governance Center “Self Assessment”: https://nativegov.org/news/a-self-assessment/ 

• Native Governance Center “Voluntary Land Tax”: https://nativegov.org/news/voluntary-land-taxes/ 

• Native Governance Center “Beyond Land Acknowledgement guide”: https://nativegov.org/news/beyond-land-acknowledgment-guide/ 

• Beyond Land Acknowledgement in Settler Institutions--Teresa Stewart-Ambo and K. Wayne Yang: Link

• Decolonization is not a metaphor--Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2012): Link

• College “Land Back” or Free Tuition for Native Students, Megan Redshirt-Shaw: ​​ https://hackthegates.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Redshirt-Shaw_Landback_HTGreport.pdf 

• High Country News Land Grab Universities Project:

• Framing article: https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities
• Interactive maps: https://www.landgrabu.org/universities 

• Wokini Initiative at South Dakota State University: https://www.sdstate.edu/wokini 

• UC Berkeley “Action Required: Using a Land Acknowledgement” Panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmBeU42fhxE 

• UC Berkeley Land Grab Universities Conference (recordings and materials available on site): https://cejce.berkeley.edu/uc-land-grab 

• Cutcha Risling Baldy, “What good is a land acknowledgement? Humboldt County, Native American History and Decolonized Futures” (video lecture): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WgxfugOtAY 

• NDN Collective “Land Back Manifesto”: https://landback.org/manifesto/

• NDN Collective “Land Back U” (video/webinar series on political education around land): https://landback.org/manifesto/ 

• J. Kēhaulani Kauanui's reading list-- "Sovereignty, Solidarity, & The Land Back Movement”: https://bookshop.org/lists/sovereignty-solidarity-the-land-back-movement