California Indigenous Communities Reclaim Stolen Territory Amid Growing Calls for Land Back

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🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In July, members of the Coast Miwok Tribal Council of Marin purchased 26 acres of land, part of what was once the tribe’s territory. The fundraising effort to buy the plot, priced at $1.3 million, is just the latest successful Land Back campaign in California, a movement to return stolen land to indigenous control. The deal signaled a momentous return for a community displaced from their land over a century ago but it also evoked conflicted feelings about having to buy back land that was never willingly relinquished. We’ll talk to members of California tribes about recent Land Back successes and the growing momentum around this movement. Guests: Joe Sanchez, elder, Coast Miwok Tribal Council of Marin Katie Keliiaa, assistant professor of History, University of California Santa Cruz Michelle Vassel, tribal administrator, Wiyot Tribe Inés Ixierda, creative director, Sogorea Te' Land Trust Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.6	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. In July, members of the Coast Mewaq Tribal Council of Marin purchased 26 acres of land in Nicosia
1:18.1	Valley, part of what was once the tribe's territory.
1:21.4	The $1.3 million purchase is just the latest successful land-back campaign in California,
1:26.7	a movement among indigenous people to regain
1:28.8	control of their ancestral lands. As the ethical case has become more widely known and accepted,
1:35.2	the practical considerations of financing and making it actually happen are now taking center
1:39.2	stage, we'll spend the morning talking with tribal leaders of successful campaigns about how they've worked and what they've learned.
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1:59.9	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. After the water protector protests against the Dakota
2:05.8	access pipeline of the early Trump years and the racial reckoning of 2020, movement to return
2:12.1	land to the indigenous tribes of California picked up a new momentum. In the most recent win for native groups, the Coast Mewoc Tribal Council
2:20.3	has secured 26 acres of their ancestral lands.
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