Imagining Land Justice
Imagining Land Justice is an interactive introduction to themes like Landback, land reparations, regenerative stewardship and collective ownership. Each issue includes context, case studies, first steps, and scenarios to imagine.
More Resources for Land Justice
Our top recommended articles, books, reports, tools, and websites to support further research and action.
Cited resources by published issue and type
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Four Winds Center and the ELCA story of Church returning land, Christian Century, 2020.
Presbyterian Church in Hudson Valley transfers title to Sweetwater Cultural Center, Presbyterian Mission, 2019.
Return of land to the Esselen Tribe in Big Sur, Nonprofit Quarterly, 2020.
Options for Transferring Land: A Brief Guide; an overview of legal and financial options by the Sustainable Economies Law Center, 2018.
Land Taxes: Shuumi Land Tax, Honor Native Land Tax, and Real Rent Duwamish
NDN Collective organizes for the return of the Black Hills and Mt. Rushmore, NDN Collective blog, 2020.
LCWR Assembly Resolution: Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, LCWR, 2014.
Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS)
Native Land interactive map: Know whose land you're on.
A Guide to Land Acknowledgment, Native Governance Center, 2019.
General overview of the Doctrine of Discovery, Doctrine of Discovery Project, 2022.
Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery by Stephen Newcomb, 2008.
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The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehesi Coates, Atlantic Magazine, 2014.
“The church must make reparation for its role in slavery, segregation,” Dr. Shannen Dee Williams, NCR, 2020.
United Nations’ Basic Principles & Guidelines on Reparations, U.N. General Assembly Resolution, 2005.
Soul Fire Farm’s Leah Penniman Explains Why Food Sovereignty Is Central to the Fight for Racial Justice, Vogue, 2020
Reparations & Rematriation Map for Black-Indigenous Farmers, NEFOC Land Trust.
LCWR Presidential Address & Ritual of Repentance (scroll down on page), LCWR, 2021.
Society of the Sacred Heart’s “Journey of Reconciliation”, RSCJ.org.
Sisters of St. Francis invest in BIPOC worker-owned businesses, PR Newswire, 2021.
Georgetown statement on slavery and Jesuit engagement in reparations, Georgetown University, 2022.
Dreams Deferred: How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide, Institute for Policy Studies, 2019 — and Dreams Deferred summary, Inequality.org, 2019.
Reparations Now! Toolkit, Movement For Black Lives, 2019.
H.R. 40, Congress, 2022 — and ACLU form to contact your representatives to support H.R. 40.
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land, Leah Penniman, 2018.
Transforming Ghosts Into Ancestors: Un-silencing The Psychological Case For Reparations To Descendants Of American Slavery, Bryan Nichols, Ph.D. and Medria Connolly, Ph.D. Other/Wise online journal of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, 2020.
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Faithlands Toolkit: A Guide to Transformational Land Use, Agrarian Trust, 2021.
“What is the Solidarity Economy?” New Economy Coalition, 2022.
“Dream Deferred: How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide,” Institute for Policy Studies, 2019.
“What Do We Mean By Just Transition?” Climate Justice Alliance, 2022.
“Woodland Community Land Trust: An Antidote to Extraction in Rural Appalachia,” Agrarian Trust, 2022.
Sacred Land, directed by Spalding Hurst and the Sustainable Lands Roundtable, 2017.
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Technical Teach-Ins & Guides:
Options for Transferring Land: A Brief Guide, by the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC)
Faithlands Toolkit: A Guide to Transformational Land Use, Agrarian Trust, 2021
Legal Structures for Radical Real Estate Webinar - SELC (2hr)
How to Rematriate the Land Webinar - SELC & Sogorea Te’ Land Trust (90min)
Guide to Creating an Agrarian Commons, Center for Agriculture & Food Systems
BIPOC Land Trusts and Conservation Groups:
Roster of Indigenous land trusts and conservation groups, from First Light
Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust (NEFOC)
Sample Legal Documents:
Cultural Conservation Easement Template
Cultural Conservation Easement Example (agreement between the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band & Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District)
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Native-Land.ca, an interactive map and resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and way of life.
Reparations & Rematriation Map for Black-Indigenous Farmers, by NEFOC Land Trust and Soul Fire Farm.
Agrarian Commons Map across 13 regions, Agrarian Trust.
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Sacred Lands, a 2020 report by the Nuns & Nones team that laid the groundwork for Imagining Land Justice. Written by Alan Webb, Diana Marin, and Rachel Plattus.
ABCs of Course Correction: a zine of social and spiritual provocations. Written by the N&N team as a “funky-prophetic learning report” following Movement Generation’s Course Correction course on a just transition.