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Returning Land to Indigenous Care and Wildlife Stewardship
What “Land Back” Truly Means
Land Back is the movement to return Indigenous homelands to Indigenous care — not as symbolism, but as real, active stewardship. It is the restoration of relationship: between people, animals, water, plants, and the spirit of place.
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Land Back is not only about healing Indigenous communities. It is about healing the land, healing the animals, and healing the relationship between Indigenous and settler communities.
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Returning land to Indigenous stewardship allows the land to rest, recover, and be tended with practices that kept these ecosystems healthy for thousands of years. It also opens a new pathway for settler allies to take part in restoring balance, honoring responsibility, and repairing historical harm.
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Land Back reconnects all of us — human and non-human relatives — to a future rooted in respect.
Why This Is a Rematriation Project
This sanctuary is a rematriation project because it centers earth-based, matriarchal values and returns land to Indigenous governance for the purpose of restoring balance.
Rematriation is about more than returning land.
It is about returning relationship — with the land, with wildlife, with community, and with each other.
Under Indigenous stewardship, the sanctuary becomes a place where:
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Wildlife is cared for as kin, not nuisance
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The land is protected from extractive practices
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Cultural teachings guide our decisions
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Healing occurs across generations — Indigenous and settler alike
This project brings land, animals, and people back into reciprocal relationship, rooted in accountability and cultural responsibility.
Our Vision for the Sanctuary Land
We envision a peaceful, protected place where all beings can heal together — the land, the animals, and the people who come to learn and reconnect.
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A place where:
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Native plants, pollinators, and wildlife return to a safe and thriving habitat
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A rehabilitation space for raccoons, skunks, opossums, and other relatives is held within quiet meadow or woodland
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A cultural education center offers teachings, hands-on learning, and opportunities for both Indigenous and settler communities to build respectful relationship
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The land becomes a living teacher, guiding all who enter through its natural rhythms and stories
This is a future where stewardship replaces extraction, where wildlife sovereignty is respected, and where cross-community healing becomes possible through shared responsibility to the land.
Donate, Lease-to-Own, or Protect Land for
Indigenous Wildlife Conservation
We are seeking land donation or lease-to-own (owners financing) opportunities from individuals and families who want their land to serve a meaningful purpose. By entrusting land to Indigenous stewardship, you help return ecological care, cultural knowledge, and healing practices to the land itself. This is more than a transfer — it is a restoration of relationship.
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If you are a landowner who feels called to take part in Land Back, we would be honored to connect. Whether you wish to donate land, offer long-term affordable lease-to-own arrangements, or collaborate on conservation easements that protect the land for generations, your support becomes part of a legacy rooted in reciprocity and care.
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We are also inviting allies and community members to join our Rematriation Support Circle — a collective effort to reclaim land for healing, wildlife rehabilitation, and Indigenous education. Your contributions help us secure land, build the sanctuary, and affirm sovereignty in everyday practice.
Let’s protect the next seven generations together.
If you’re a landowner interested in supporting Land Back, please reach out using the form below — we would be honored to connect with you.