Links for Learning & Action

This is an in-process list of resources related to Land in Common’s work and values. It is only partial, and we know that there are many other amazing efforts and resources out there. Please let us know what we’re missing: info@landincommon.org. Thank you!

The Land We Live On

• A Map of Native Land. Use this resource to find out whose land you are living on (but don’t rely on it too much; find out what Indigenous people in your area have to say about this).

Native-Led Organizations in what is colonially called “Maine“

• Bomazeen Land Trust
• Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship & First Light
• Niweskok
• Maine Wabanaki REACH
• Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness
• Nibezun
• The Wabanaki Alliance

Wabanaki Tribal Governments

• Abenaki Council of Odanak (Quebec)
• Abenaki Nation at Wôlinak (Quebec)
• Aroostook Band of Micmacs
• Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians
• Penobscot Indian Nation
• Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township
• Passamaquoddy at Sipayik

Other Land Justice (and Related) Efforts Led by Communities of Color in Wabanakik

• Presente! Maine
• Somali Bantu Community Association
• New Roots Cooperative Farm
• Racial Equity & Justice
• For Us By Us Fund
• Journey ONEderland
• Ummah Farms
• The Third Place
• Tender Table

Land Protection & Farmer Support in Maine & New England

• Native Land Conservancy
• Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust
• Black Farmer Fund
• Cultivemos
• Agrarian Trust
• Maine Farmland Trust
• Land for Good
• Equity Trust

Community Land Trusts

• Community Land Trusts (Jarred Green, Next Systems Project)
• Center for New Economics CLT resources
• Community Land Trusts Are a Model for Reparations (truthout.org)
• The Problem with Community Land Trusts (jacobin.org) [note: this should be subtitled, “And How We Can Change Them”]

Cooperative Livelihoods & Solidarity Economies

• BIPOC Intentional Community Council
• Community Economies Institute
• Cooperative Development Institute
• Cooperative Maine Business Alliance
• Cooperative Fund of the Northeast
• Cooperation Jackson
• Grassroots Economic Organizing
• Solidarity Economy Principles
• SolidarityNYC

Land Justice Resources

• Monica White, “The Biggest Thing We Forget When Talking About Food Justice: (Yes! Magazine)
• Resources on Land Accumulation & Wealth (google doc)
• Audrea Lim, “How the Green New Deal Can Deliver Land Justice”(Jacobin)
• Land Justice Mapping Tools
• First Light Learning Journey (resource page)

Racism and Colonialism – General Resources

• Dismantling Racism Works (dRworks) – Web Workbook
• White Supremacy & Colonialism readings @ The POC Online Classroom
• Environmental Justice readings @ The POC Online Classroom

Decolonization

• Anti-Colonial Research Library
• Decolonizing Conservation reading list
• Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures
• Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society (open access journal)
• Decolonization (journal) reading list
• Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor” (PDF)
• Mali Obomsawin, “This Land is Whose Land?”
• Land as Pedagogy (Leanne Betasamosake Simpson)
• Land Reparations & Indigenous Solidarity Toolkit (Resource Generation)
• Sacred Instructions book (Sherri Mitchell)
• The “Set-Up” of Settler Colonialism: From the U.S. to Ireland to Palestine (David Dean)

Indigenous Land Payment/Tax Projects

• Shuumi Land Tax – Lisjan Ohlone (East Bay area, CA)
• Real Rent Duwamish – Duwamish Tribe (Seattle, WA)
• Manna-hatta Fund Lenni Lenape territory (New York, NY)
• Wiyot Honor Tax – Wiyot Nation (Humboldt Bay region, CA)
• Honor Native Land Tax – Tiwa/Pueblo (Albuquerque, NM)
• Yunakin Land Tax – Ramaytush Ohlone (San Francisco, CA)

Reparations

• Movement for Black Lives
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations” (The Atlantic)
• Aaron Goggans, “The Case for Interpersonal Reparations” (WagingNonviolence.org)
• Soul Fire Farm, Reparations Map

National & International Land Justice Movements & Organizations

• Landless Worker’s Movement (MST), Brasil
• Via Campesina, International
• Federation of Southern Cooperatives, USA
• National Black Food and Justice Alliance, USA
• Land Loss Prevention Project, USA
• Black Family Land Trust, USA
• Land Justice Network, UK
• NYC Community Land Initiative, USA