16. Environmental Stewardship and Land Back Movements
Indigenous peoples have long championed environmental stewardship as an expression of sovereignty, applying traditional knowledge to care for ancestral lands. The growing Land Back movement calls for the return of land to Native control, with notable successes in both Canada and the United States. These campaigns reinforce Indigenous rights and ecological responsibility. To learn more about the meaning and impact of Land Back, visit Sierra Club: What Does Land Back Really Mean?.
