LANDBACK is a generations long movement focused on getting Indigenous Lands back into Indigenous hands, globally. LANDBACK exists today as political, organizing, and narrative framework with the goal of collective liberation. This list is intended to highlight Indigenous voices across the globe in the fight for liberation. Disclaimer and online resources in comments Recommendations always welcome
created by munitum
last updated September, 2026







Disclaimer: I have yet to read all of these titles. If something doesn’t fit, let me know!! I’m also extremely open to suggestions, particularly outside of America as I have a greater list of American stories so far.
Online Resources: (to be added to) NDN Collective LANDBACK.org Decolonization is not a metaphor by Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang Sogorea Te’ Land Trust Recommended Reading (Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the SF Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people [source: Sogorea Te’ Land Trust Purpose and Vision ])
Treating this list like the quest it should/will be ✊
An essay not a book but Decolonization is not a metaphor by K. Wayne Yang and Eve Tuck is a must read
Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine by Nada Elia, No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Added! Particularly looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of No Country for Eight-Spot Butterfly

I’m also coming back to ask, do you happen to have a working link to Decolonization is not a metaphor? The ones I’ve found are shooting back a 404 error :( I’d love to link it in my pinned comment if I can find and read it!
Yes!
The Ohio State University
The Internet Archive
https://ikdll.nau.edu/id/eprint/84/
North Arizona University

Thank you!!!
Thank you for this list! 💚
Just a few more possible book recommendations:
Liberating Sápmi: Indigenous Resistance in Europe's Far North by Gabriel Kuhn
The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations by Mawopiyane & Shirley Hager
Giving Back: Research and Reciprocity in Indigenous Settings
No Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous by Sheldon Krasowski
The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation by Jean Teillet
Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America by Michael John Witgen
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

will be reading into these titles today, thank you so much for the recs!!!
I love seeing Sápmi included 💙