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Those takes are incorrect.

This is, at its very core, the basis of land being returned to us. We don't want to make all white people/non native people leave the land or whatever. This is just step one, but it's also important to recognize that this is fundamentally what the LandBack movement has been trying to achieve. As far as I can tell? This is the first step to granting Indigenous people autonomous control over our own nations and land once more. I don't know much about how US law works, but I'm intimately aware of the aim and goals of the Indigenous (read: my) community.

So: please listen to actual native people on this. So so many of us have been sobbing tears of joy over this, crying and being in shock, because we can barely believe that we got SUCH an incredible and major win. This is what we want. Do not write over that with your white misinterpretations of what it is we mean by Land Back.

My coworkers complain that our Muslim students get to leave class to pray Salat at noon. Like, we have maybe one Muslim student every two or three years - thus far, all extraordinarily respectful and lovely kids! - and they slip quietly out of class to pray.

My coworkers find all this infuriating. “Imagine,” they cry, “If a Christian kid asked to do that.”

I calmly explain, every single time, that a Christian kid would never HAVE to do that, because every single Christian holy day is a day off school. Good Friday. Easter Sunday. Christmas day. Our entire country interrupts its financial and educational systems - schedules its WEEKS - around the Christian prayer customs and seasons.