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Left, one of the first designs for Wenatchi Wear by Mary Big Bull-Lewis. Right, the inspiration for the design, Two Bears mountain overlooking Wenatchee. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
The bucket listThe phrase “land back” has garnered increased attention online over the past few years, sparking conversation through its hashtag and generally becoming the shorthand reference for efforts directed at returning land to its original Indigeneous stewards. Some recent large-scale efforts, like protests last summer demanding the closure of Mount Rushmore and its area’s return to the land’s Native peoples, were a catalyst for widespread conversation.
Big Bull-Lewis says she has drawn inspiration from many of them, buoyed by their hope and potential.
“Maybe it’s just me being naive because I’m more involved right now, [but] I would say there’s been an uprising,” she says.
But she adds that the idea of fighting for the return of land itself is an old one. Native communities throughout the United States have a long history of land being taken through myriad methods, whether swiftly through outright theft and violence or slowly but surely through continued settler encroachment. The very signing of treaties between Native peoples and settlers established reservations for tribes that were much smaller than what they’d known as their ancestral lands. Even those provisions were later targeted by settlers who pressured Native people to leave them behind and assimilate into Euro-American society.
And as long as that has happened, there have been efforts to retain sovereignty over these lands and regain ownership. Some federally recognized tribes have leveraged their recognition into building a land base once more — like the Samish Nation, as one recent case. Other Native communities have invited residents living on their lands to pay “land taxes” or “rent” — fun
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