LANDBACK: A Tipi Village Takes on Healing & Homelessness

On Indigenous Peoples Day, Laura reports from “He Sapa‘’, the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral lands to address homelessness, addiction and violence against Native Americans. Catalyzed in 2020, by an action in which Land Defenders blocked former President Donald Trump’s road to Mount Rushmore, this Landback campaign is about reclaiming, along with stolen land, native ceremonies, spirituality and traditions of community care. In this special feature, Laura reports on Camp Mniluzahan, a tipi village built on tribal trust land, that welcomed hundreds of unhoused Indigenous people and others in the Rapid City area in the dead of winter last year. Among Laura’s guests, Oglala Lakota activists Nick Tilsen, Krystal Two Bulls and Sunny Red Bear of NDN Collective.
[Camp Mniluzahan] is... a teaching moment [about] what could happen. We're envisioning what could be if we actually had control of our lands and what it would mean to have land back.
Sunny Red Bear, Director of Racial Equity, NDN Collective; Lakota from the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation
“​​Mount Rushmore is not a statue that you can topple. It's not a flag that you can lower. It's not a painting that you can take off the wall. The only way to achieve justice in this situation is to return the land.”
LEARN MORE about the LANDBACK Campaign at landback.org
GUESTS
Hermus Bettelyoun, Racial Equity Organizer, NDN Collective; Oglala Lakota
Sunny Red Bear, Director of Racial Equity, NDN Collective; Lakota
Amy Sazue, Education Equity Organizer, NDN Collective; Sicangu & Oglala Lakota
Nick Tilsen, President & CEO, NDN Collective; Oglala Lakota
Krystal Two Bulls, Director of LANDBACK Campaign, NDN Collective; Northern Cheyenne/Oglala Lakota
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Executive Producer: Laura Flanders
Creative Director: Matt Colaciello
Communications Director: Jeremiah Cothren
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Motion Graphics: Nat Needham
Communications Associate: Mercedes Gorostiaga
Production Assistant: Ryan Hotes
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[@GOne-vj6no]

As a human being, its natural for natives to want to return to our ancestral ways and to our ancestral lands. 👍 Land back!

[@jonasuriel7936]

Land Back is the answer. Solidarity!

[@GOne-vj6no]

Damn they went hard at those land back demonstrations. Hope to join one soon!

[@mmarone333]

Really excellent and inspiring report. Thanks to Laura Flanders and comrades for filing this. Keep up this great #LandBack movement. I’m sure everyone who’s come in touch with it will never forget their participation. #OccupyWallSt #BlackLivesMatter #WeAreThe99Percent All Our Grievances Are Connected. Another World Is Possible.

[@GOne-vj6no]

"Vintage is mine. Said the lord. " They have done EVERYTHING but accept natives in THEIR NATIVE LAND.

[@anntrope491]

Reparations for Indigenous Peoples first… everywhere !! Landback !!

[@allenabel1369]

Take down Mount Rushmore!!! Give the land back!

[@nahgonnalie1763]

Thank you for reporting on this! People need examples of the world Indigenous Peoples are trying to (re-)build and this is a very powerful one. What colonialism calls "services" are actually functions of a healthy, connected culture where people are look out for one another and the earth. That could be elevated now to a larger scale but we have to listen to the people who still maintain a semblance of how their elders did it #LANDBACK nowwwww

[@GOne-vj6no]

Thats what we're up against. And now the entire world. We must kill it before it breed and has alot of little spider babies.

[@GOne-vj6no]

Before it destroys our world.

[@Giantkelp1]

Land Back!

[@katiejohnson7254]

Great video. Very informative and educational.

[@Nico-gk3zl]

#LANDBACK !!!!

[@LAURACLE22]

❤

[@judyrosen5707]

good morning everyone

[@faharoon357]

Viva la Land Back!!!

[@colleenbonniwell4226]

OURS TO PROTECT

[@BruceWaynesaysLandBack]

Looks dope

[@diellehamilton1408]

I am hoping Department of the Interior will give concurrent jurisdiction for ALL federal lands to native peoples so that they have a say in terms of permits, etc. Maybe even preferential treatment in staffing parks, national monuments & forests. Many areas that are very sacred places and stolen - like everything else. How can we say "land of the free" when built on stolen land with stolen labor?

[@justinklinck6575]

You look white. Lol

[@GuyCruls]

wow, the quality of the video when Laura speaks is unreal!

[@WenjuneTanedo]

Thank you for sharing please help Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines to reclaims ICCs stolen lands from them by non IPs.

[@trina2021]

It doesnt have to cost to live..

[@alexanderkoruga6409]

People get angry when you live rent free in your car in the USA. I've experienced it myself traveling to 48 states between 2018 and 2020. It's embedded in American cultures that you always need to be working. Others are programmed to punish you in small ways if you're act like a human being instead of a human doing.

[@Merlin-s9e]

What kinds life should I see myself? Is too help all humanity in all areas and where its needed to know who I'm from my heart soul my love 💓 ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕

[@Chiko4579]

#LANDBACK

[@scasey1960]

Should we create dedicated lands for the homeless? Primitive homesteads where the indigent carve out an existence from raw undeveloped land.

[@judyrosen5707]

who's we?

[@kate9576]

No. Overrunning nature will destroy the balance. Nature Bats Last had a story on it.

[@faharoon357]

Spoken as a true White American.

[@sebastienloyer9471]

Yes

[@dayanaron705]

Land Back is a movement that only exists in the United States; here in Latin America there is no need for any of that. There are only peasant movements, but beyond that, indigenous people live in Catholic villages working for a boss and holding carnivals.

[@dayanaron705]

They just protest against corrupt rulers like any average Hispanic American.

[@anthonymarkharris6192]

SouDan South Daniel

[@spellbreaker6609]

Start q campaign to have tons of babies