This session examines the contemporary LAND BACK movement while tracing the historical and legal genealogies of settler colonial land expropriation, indigenous land title, and self- governance issues bounded to territory (recognized and otherwise). The presentation will offer an overview of Indigenous peoples’ political status, self-determination; structures of domination and resistance, Native nationalism and decolonization and cases of land recovery and reclamation.

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm = group conversation.

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian) is an activist-scholar, radio producer and writer. She is the author of Hawaiian Blood (DUP 2008); Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism (DUP 2018); and Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders (UMP 2018). She recently guest-edited a special issue of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies on “The Politics of Indigeneity, Anarchist Praxis, and Decolonization” (May 2021). She is also working on a new book about Hawaiian decolonization and politics of feminism. Her current research focuses on the LANDBACK! movement on Turtle Island and the U.S. occupied Pacific; the ethics of U.S.-based Palestine solidarity activism; and the relationship between settler colonialism and fascism. She is the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Professor of Indigenous Studies in the Effron Center for the Study of America and the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University.