A Call to Action – Join the Movement for LandBack
LANDBACK is an Indigenous-led, spiritually grounded, organizing, and narrative framework from which we work toward collective liberation. It is the way we reclaim our right to restore, uphold, and protect our symbiotic and just relationships with Mother Earth, all forms of life, and each other. It is about achieving embodied sovereignty that heals the destruction of generations of colonial violence against Mother Earth, women, two spirit relatives, and all peoples who have been exploited and systemically oppressed by unsustainable systems rooted in violent supremacist ideologies. Everything connects to LANDBACK – from returning stolen lands to reclaiming everything that has been taken by colonization. LANDBACK is about exercising sovereignty and self-determination to become the people who the land wants and needs.
Our Movement
We are Indigenous Peoples asserting our inherent rights to self-determination, sovereignty, and survival. We are culture bearers, spiritual warriors, healers, and two-spirit, organizers rooted in our lands, our ancestors, and our responsibilities to future generations. We are allies and accomplices who act with accountability, take risks, and commit to building a multi-racial democracy rooted in justice, self-determination, and collective liberation.
We uphold and protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples, including the fundamental rights of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent and self-determination. These are not symbolic principles — they are living rights that must govern decisions about our lands, bodies, cultures, and futures.
We protect Mother Earth.
We organize to reclaim our languages, cultures, and ways of knowing. Language and cultural revitalization are acts of survival, resistance, and self-determination — inseparable from land, ceremony, governance, and community wellness.
We uphold food sovereignty as a sacred responsibility. Our peoples have always fed our communities through land-based practices rooted in reciprocity and stewardship. Food sovereignty is Land Back in practice — restoring Indigenous control over food systems, seeds, waters, and traditional harvesting, fishing, and farming practices.
We fight for Land Back and the protection of sacred sites. Our lands are not commodities — they are ancestors, relatives, and responsibilities. We defend sacred places, cultural landscapes, and burial grounds from extraction, militarization, and desecration, and we advance the return of land to Indigenous stewardshipand governance.
We organize around priority issues identified by our network membership. Our agenda is community-led, responsive, and accountable to the lived realities, struggles, and visions of Indigenous peoples across territories.
We build power alongside allies and accomplices who act with accountability and shared risk, committed to advancing a just, multi-racial democracy grounded in Indigenous sovereignty and collective liberation.
We organize for climate action because we know that Traditional Ecological Knowledge is not an alternative — it is the solution to the climate crisis. We believe in a Just Transition away from extractive, colonial economies toward regenerative systems that center human rights, collective care, and land stewardship.
We are anti-genocide. We are anti-imperialist. Imperialism has devastated our lands, stolen our resources, and disrupted our cultures and ways of life across generations. We stand in solidarity with all peoples resisting occupation and dispossession. We are pro-Palestine. LANDBACK is the Right of Return.
We are abolitionists. Carceral systems — police, ICE, prisons — have long been tools of colonial violence against our peoples. We believe in community-led safety, collective accountability, and the power of the people to keep each other safe.
We uphold body sovereignty. Indigenous peoples and our bodies have been among the most exploited on the planet. Our natural and customary laws have been violated by colonization for centuries. Choice is sovereignty.
We believe in the power of dissent and direct action. We reject narratives that criminalize our resistance. We are not violent — we are actively confronting violent systems and ideologies that harm our communities every day.
We organize to change conditions. We cannot reform systems that were never built for us. We are building the communities, economies, and governance structures our people deserve.
We believe in reciprocity, resource sharing, and collective care. Mutual aid is not new — it is ancestral. Our survival has always depended on communal responsibility and shared abundance.
We uphold Indigenous data sovereignty — our inherent right to collect, interpret, share, and collectively control data about our lands, cultures, and communities.
We believe in reparations for our Black relatives and communities harmed by imperialism and racial capitalism. We believe in disability justice, because liberation means no one is left behind. We believe in intergenerational organizing — honoring our ancestors, centering our elders, and protecting our children.
Together, we are the LANDBACK ACTION NETWORK