{"id":3219,"date":"2026-11-10T21:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T21:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2026-11-10T21:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T21:06:25","slug":"3219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3219","title":{"rendered":"Native American “Land Back” movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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While reading an Audubon Magazine<\/em> recently, I came across an article about Native Americans starting to reclaim more of their land. The article starts out with a damning, but wholly true, statement: “Since settlers arrived in the United States, tribal nations have lost nearly 99 percent of their lands through treaty cessions, forced migration, theft, and devastating government policies designed to erode Native sovereignty and culture.” The article goes on to note that many tribal nations are finding ways to regain some of their ancestral land they lost, by purchasing property, cultivating land donations, and partnering with conservation groups. Their aim, in this “Land Back” movement, is to heal generational trauma, enhance their culture and language, and revive traditional hunting, gathering, and cultivation practices — while protecting and restoring key habitats. Our administration would be 100% behind this movement. And our campaign’s Native American Issues position paper<\/a> spells out, in detail, and through a lot of cross-country research, how we’d help do just that. Note: <\/em> This position paper was also used in the college textbook “Social Justice (Opposing Viewpoints),” which was published by Cengage Learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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