Areas of Work

If our work is a tree, its roots and trunk is our organizational transformation to center the leadership of frontline communities. The trunk holds and gives life to the rest of the tree, which has four branches — each of which helps to sustain the whole. These branches are:

Land commoning: caring for the land we hold, and gathering more land into the commons.

Land access for collective liberation: collaborating with BIPOC-led community organizations and projects to acquire land for their work.

Movement building and popular education: building coalitions, engaging in community-participatory research, developing a land justice popular education curriculum.

Wabanaki solidarity and land return: returning land we hold to Wabanaki stewardship, supporting settler-led conservation organizations in returning land, supporting the development of the Wabanaki Self Determination Fund.

These branches are at various stages of growth, and each of them overlap and interweave in many places. These four elements are intended to complement the others and build toward a holistic approach to cultivating collective land ownership, equitable land access, and sustainable interdependencies between human livelihoods and wild ecosystems.

Acknowledgment & Commitment

Land in Common does our work in occupied Wabanaki homelands, on and with land marked by long histories of injustice, resistance, and resilience.

We affirm that this is sacred Wabanaki land. We honor Wabanaki elders, past, present, and future, and we commit to active support for the sovereignty and flourishing of Wabanaki people and Nations.

We walk with the weight of history and with the ongoing realities of white supremacy, colonialism, genocide, and exploitation that rob so many people and communities of land and livelihood.

We honor the strength and resilience of all those who have resisted and persisted, and who have passed on the dream of a more just world.

We commit ourselves to the work of reckoning, reparation, land return, healing, and ongoing struggle for collective liberation, and to taking our leadership from those most impacted by injustice.