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  • Funding the Earth's keepers: The need for Indigenous climate philanthropy

    May 04, 2023 |

    Mashable |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Decolonizing Wealth Project is a network of people working together to create more equitable, capital opportunities for communities of color, with an emphasis on Indigenous land keepers. Through its work with other groups, the project offers a series of grant opportunities like the Indigenous Earth Fund to provide Indigenous-led organizations with the resources needed to target climate and conservation issues.

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  • The world's best rainforest guardians already live there

    May 01, 2023 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    Empowering Indigenous peoples in Indonesia with land rights allows them to protect and manage rainforests and biodiversity. One tribe that’s doing so, the Kajang, relies on substance agriculture and does not allow practices like cutting down trees, hunting, or using technology on most of the land.

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  • Where Indigenous land rights prevail in Brazil, so does nature, study finds

    April 06, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Peruíbe

    In areas of Brazil where land tenure is formalized, indigenous peoples' reforestation projects are increasing forest cover.

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  • From grassroots to governments, LANDBACK returns stolen land

    October 05, 2022 |

    Prism |

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    Response Location: Colville Indian Reservation, United States, Seattle, Washington

    Through partnerships with conservation organizations and donation-based rent and land tax programs, Native peoples and tribes are reclaiming land stolen from them hundreds of years ago and raising funds for these efforts from non-Native residents still occupying Native territory. The LANDBACK movement has helped recover parcels such as a 10,000-acre plot in the Seattle area that was returned to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation via a conservation organization.

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  • 40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation

    October 03, 2022 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Manhattan Beach, California

    Protesters in Manhattan Beach, Calif., organized a campaign to return Bruce's Beach, a 7,000-square-foot plot of land that was taken from its Black owners in the 1920s, to the descendents of the original proprietors. The success of the effort led to the formation of Where is My Land, an organization that puts pressure on municipalities and governments to return land that was stolen from Black people throughout the United States' history.

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  • Black farming projects look to recoup historical U.S. land losses

    June 17, 2022 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund is helping Black farmers buy land. More than $200,000 have gone toward urban land purchases in a practice some see as “restorative economics." Black land activists are also purchasing land in rural communities across the United States.

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  • When Reparations Grow from the Grassroots

    November 15, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    A racial justice nonprofit in Massachusetts is focusing on reparations, specifically to those experiencing racialized housing insecurity. The racial wealth gap in The United States stems from unequal access to land and home ownership, making it an important component of economic justice.

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  • Grassroots movements fight a broken system

    September 21, 2021 |

    The Eastern Door |

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    Response Location: Canada, Caledonia, Ontario

    "Land defenders" from the Six Nations blocked a planned housing development on contested land by swiftly moving to occupy the site, even after a police raid in which nine protesters were arrested. In place of the now-canceled development, the community erected a dozen tiny homes and a communal kitchen. The protest serves as a model for another occupation by members of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation at Kahnawake, whose 75-day holdout protests a planned 290-unit housing development on land that is subject to the nation's unresolved claim.

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  • How to give the land back

    September 07, 2021 |

    Shareable |

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    Response Location: United States, Eureka, California

    In California, the Wiyot tribe and the city of Eureka are forming a Community Land Trust to return to their ancestral land to the Wayat tribe. The trust ensures the Wayat tribe keeps decision-making powers concerning the land. Prior, to that the tribe raised $200,000 and purchased portions of Tulawat Island. In 2004, a tribal chairwoman requested a transfer of land back to the tribe that was unanimously approved by Eureka's city council. In 2019, the city returned an additional 200 acres.

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  • The Gila River Indian Community innovates for a drought-ridden future

    May 13, 2021 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Through settlements, the Gila River Indian community was able to regain rights to its river and tributaries. Aside, from that the community created partnerships with other water projects. The community also decided to keep a network of managed aquifer sites and to rehabilitate existing wells. One other effect of the settlement was the revival of a small segment of the Gila river. The strategic moves the community made could provide a model for other indigenous communities who lack access to their own water supply.

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