One Million Bones - Vermont

12/24/2022

Landback Virginia, the Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe and the Rappahannock Tribe

The Upper Mattaponi and Rappahannock received grants directly from a state conservation fund to acquire and preserve forestlands for the first time.

12/05/2022

“After nearly 100 years, we are finally able to bring our dear relative home to rest on Nisga'a lands,” said Stephens. “It means so much for us to have the Ni'isjoohl memorial pole returned to us, so that we can connect our family, nation and our future generations with our living history.”

A memorial totem pole taken almost a century ago from the Nisga'a Nation in British Columbia is being returned to its homelands, says the National Museum of Scotland.

06/02/2022

“With the loss of tribal homelands and the depletion of the buffalo herds, the plains tribes lost traditional connections with this beautiful animal. But despite that terrible tragedy and loss, we are still here. You are still here. And that is something to celebrate,” Haaland said.

For three days, tribes and neighbors celebrate “restoration of a piece that was missing.”

05/08/2022

Land Back in action

There's no blueprint for how to return stolen land, but with 70,000 acres returned to Indigenous care over the past two years alone, we know it can be done.

04/02/2022

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/559902-doi-returns-over-18000-acres-of-land-to-native-american/?fbclid=IwAR2Yu9AkrPLSn669NIkowHGodGj0msdihPn0pCfIUctmNvZzH2MZfPjzlHA

The National Bison Range was transferred to tribal leadership.

03/27/2022

Holodomor (translated from Ukrainian as “extermination by famine”) Ukrainian history insists was a genocide.

In 1933, Ukraine experienced a manmade famine known as the Holodomor Genocide orchestrated by Joseph Stalin’s Soviet regime.

03/21/2022

Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley, "America must lead the world to make it clear that atrocities like these will never be allowed to be buried unnoticed, no matter where they occur."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/20/politics/biden-administration-myanmar-military-genocide/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1U9UNoB86eIETYwAy9evcaQLfFV1LP4BGQFdLMYB4wYSIRcjGkXgOup0w

The Biden administration has formally determined that Myanmar's military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya, a US official told CNN on Sunday.

01/31/2022

Up to 170,000 people are thought to have left homes in Myanmar’s Kayah state due to intensified fighting

12/31/2021

Hayden King co-wrote the foundational text for the movement. "Land Back" “It's also about revitalizing Indigenous life, because we're thinking about land as everything in unity, we're thinking about our languages connected to the land and our culture connected to the land and our family and social organizations connected to the land.”

Hayden King co-wrote "Land Back," a foundational text for a political movement to return Indigenous lands back to the peoples that lived on them well before North American colonists drew up treaties to claim them as private property.