A Catholic organization recently returned land to an Ojibwe tribe in northern Wisconsin, marking what officials are calling the first known return of Catholic-owned land to an Indigenous tribe as an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you ...

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 ...

Sharing a border with Ecuador and Peru, the southern Colombian department of Putumayo takes its name from the Quechua term for “gushing river.” For some, its landscapes are a sacred doorway to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...