🪶 Land Back

Indigenous education was a colonial tool, but now educators like Mary Bowman are building community-based schools rooted in Lakota culture, language, and academic excellence, developing future leaders.

Indigenous educators are reclaiming education as a tool of decolonization, with Mary Bowman leading the Oceti Sakowin Community Academy in Rapid City as a model for transformative, culturally grounded learning.

Madonna Thunder Hawk, a great grandmother living on her reservation, and Lilias Jarding, who stopped two dozen uranium corporations with Black Hills Alliance, discuss Craven Canyon's cultural sites and the halted state permit hearing over missing Lakota translators.

Madonna Thunder Hawk, an Oohenumpa Lakota and longtime Indigenous organizer, and Lilias Jarding, Executive Director of the Black Hills Clean Water Alliance, have organized resistance to mining threats since the 1970s; current threats include Craven Canyon, the Dewey-Burdock uranium project.

Scholar Deborah Miranda discusses her memoir Bad Indians, exploring Indigenous history through hybrid storytelling, archive reconstruction, and the healing power of narrative against colonial erasure.

Scholar and poet Deborah Miranda discusses her memoir "Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir," exploring Indigenous storytelling, colonial history, and the recovery of ancestral narratives as acts of resistance.

Red Nation members discuss the creation, principles, and ongoing relevance of their manifesto on indigenous action against colonialism and ecological crisis.

Hosts analyze Ramona Emerson’s novel Exposure to critique settler colonialism, imperialism, and the Catholic Church through Indigenous perspectives.

Discusses Indigenous women's leadership in the LandBack movement, the historical targeting of matriarchs by colonization, and the work of organizations supporting Indigenous women's rights and safety.

All nine so-called "South Dakota" Tribes passed resolutions supporting legislation to return federal lands in the Black Hills to the Great Sioux Nation; the proposal excludes private lands and treaty claims, amid 8,800 active mining claims covering 17 percent of the region.

Norma Rendon explains how the Land Back movement relies on honoring Indigenous women and two-spirit relatives through rematriation.