Daybreak Star Community & Land Tending – LandBack Day

Join us for a restoration work party at Daybreak Star.

As the country prepares to celebrate a version of “Thanksgiving” rooted in myth, erasure, and colonial violence—we invite you to gather for LandBack Day, a space to transform that narrative and stand in solidarity with Indigenous sovereignty, survival, and resurgence.
These gatherings are a place to return to the land, to reconnect with Indigenous teachings, and to be in community with each other in ways that are rooted, relational, and real. They’re about Indigenous food sovereignty, cultural memory, and reclaiming the right to care for land in the ways our ancestors always have.
Led by community members and organizers with United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, this work centers Indigenous knowledge systems and relationships with land that have existed here since time immemorial—and that continue, despite every attempt to erase them.

Food as Medicine, Food as Resistance
The Forest Garden is growing with care—planted with camas, salmonberry, huckleberry, wild strawberry, nettle, cedar, and other Native plants that are more than food and medicine—they’re our teachers, our elders, and our ancestors.
These plants are being tended not just for harvest, but to support the many Indigenous-centered programs at UIATF: elder meals, youth programming, cultural wellness, and more. This is one way we practice sovereignty—by feeding ourselves, our people, and our spirits in alignment with our values.

This is not a day of celebration. It is a day of remembering, of returning, and of rising.

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