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 https://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

CREDITS
Executive Producer: Laura Flanders
Creative Director: Matt Colaciello
Communications Director: Jeremiah Cothren
Editors: Charlotte Carpenter, Mercedes Gorostiaga, Nat Needham
Radio & Podcast Producer: Jeannie Hopper
Co-Director Development: Dominic Marcella
Story Producer: Sabrina Artel
Motion Graphics: Nat Needham
Communications Associate: Mercedes Gorostiaga
Production Assistant: Ryan Hotes
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