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Editorial Review

Booklist - What Is Land Back?

Cover: What Is Land Back?

The Racial Justice in America: Indigenous Peoples series (8 titles) introduces aspects of mediating ingrained discriminatory practices. This offering concentrates on the relatively new Land Back movement, an effort officially launched in 2020 when the NDN Collective (a grassroots, Indigenous-rights organization) published a land reclamation manifesto with 13 organizing principles. Opening chapters document how land and sacred sites have been usurped and repurposed over past centuries, uprooting Native peoples and destroying their ways of life and culture. The accessible narrative fills in historical, political, legal, and social background, supported by numerous archival photographs, reproductions, and side bars. The final chapter reiterates the four main goals of the Land Back movement and documents current Indigenous rights activism. This is a solid introduction to an important contemporary issue.

—Kathleen McBroom

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What Is Land Back? 6.4

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