Change Threatens to Sever Appalachians from Land… Again

Like many before us, my Indian parents valued land as a form of inheritance. They also fell in love with the gentle rolling hills of East Texas. In late 2020, my parents started searching for freedom from COVID-19 by looking for land to purchase.

This Hispanic Heritage Month, let’s recognize the influence that Latino and Hispanic Americans have on the way we conserve land and water.

An expanded concept of the “black commons” – based on shared economic, cultural and digital resources as well as land – could be a part of undoing the racist legacy of chattel slavery by encouraging economic development and creating communal wealth.

This is how one Native American presents her interpretation of the indigenous understanding of nature. Increasingly there has been debate over the nature of the Native American’s relationship to the land, both past and present.