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Land Buy-Back Program

Federal program for buying back land from private sellers for Native American tribes

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Feb 5, 2026

What legal pathways exist for Native American tribes to reclaim private land in California?

can reclaim privately held ancestral lands through several distinct legal and practical pathways: voluntary purchase and donation (often aided by NGOs and state grants), federal fee-to-trust transfers...

Feb 4, 2026

What modern efforts exist to return land or provide reparations to Native American communities?

Modern efforts to return land and provide reparations to Native American communities are a patchwork of federal programs, state initiatives, nonprofit-to-tribal transfers, institutional reparative dem...