{"id":105518,"date":"2022-11-22T11:26:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T19:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518///wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518//?post_type=article&p=105518"},"modified":"2024-09-03T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T00:07:12","slug":"community-indigenous-colonization-reparations","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518///wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518//social-justice/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518//2022/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518//11/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518//22/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518//community-indigenous-colonization-reparations","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous and Black Communities Find Common Cause for Land Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/n

Land creates people, and, as ancestral herbalist Ayo Ngozi says, /wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/u201cLand is a true source of power./wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/u201d This understanding of land as living spiritual power itself is a shared experience across Indigenous nations. There is an emotional and mental power that comes with knowing there is a home to return to. In contemporary capitalist societies, the economic power of owning land is critical, allowing the building of equity to access resources to fund education, businesses, more land ownership, and more self-determination for one/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/u2019s descendants. /wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/n

Read Part 1 of this story: Stolen Lands: A Black and Indigenous History of Land Exploitation/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/n

Today, Black and Indigenous communities are navigating these relationships to land while mapping and acting to build community economics that are decoupled from exploitative systems of production and trade. /wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/105518/n