land back
Territorial sovereignty movement
Land back is a movement and rallying cry among Indigenous peoples seeking the return of ancestral territories taken through colonization.
The phrase functions as both noun and imperative: The land back movement has gained momentum or simply Land back! as a demand.
It encompasses literal repatriation of land to tribal nations, restoration of stewardship rights, and broader goals of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- tribal nationsSelf-governing native communities
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
decolonization · treaty · treaty rights · stolen · reclaim · ancestors · sacred · sacred sites · native · tribal · reparations · homeland · stewardship · reservation · colonialism · return · rights · earth
- social causesfeminism, charity, environmentalism, volunteering, pacifism
- decolonizationanticolonialism, independence movement, independence movements, freedom fighter, anti-colonialism
- indigenous rightsnative sovereignty, indigenous sovereignty, traditional territories, aboriginal rights, native rights
- Native Rightsnative rights, tribal sovereignty, tribal autonomy, tribal governance, federal recognition
- Tribal Rightstribal governance, tribal sovereignty, tribal membership, tribal courts, tribal police
- Indigenous Lawindigenous law, aboriginal rights, indigenous sovereignty, ceremonial law, traditional law
land backcolonization
Foreign territorial takeover
land seizure · dispossession · settler colonialism · land theft · manifest destiny
land backforced assimilation
Compelled cultural absorption
assimilation · cultural erasure · cultural genocide · residential schools · boarding schools
land, back, lands, landed, landing, landings, landless, landlord, landmark