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Kevin Maples

@bkevinmaples.bsky.social

Wind River Lake, Breccia Cliffs, and Sublette Peak, near Togwotee Pass along the Continental Divide and within Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming. July 2017. #photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #wyoming #nationalforests #rockymounains #lakes #continentaldivide #shoshone #ancestrallands

Banded, gray cliffs and evergreen trees are reflected in a still lake under overcast skies.

December 31, 2024 at 4:11 PM

surlyspice she/her

@surlyspice.bsky.social

KULEANA by sara kehaulani goo @saragoo.bsky.social is available 6/10/25 from @flatironbooks.bsky.social @macmillanlib.bsky.social #nonfiction #hawaii #AncestralLands #colonization #PartJournalism #PartMemoir #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 5/1!

book cover for kuleana by sara kehaulani goo with white lettering over an aerial photograph of a road winding through coastal greenery with ocean visible to the upper left

April 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM

Emma Palmer

@bristolemma.bsky.social

The shire - homeland’s looking moody and mysterious this fine Sunday 🤩

#chewvalley #ancestrallands #lushsomerset

Chew valley lake with moody shafts of light

February 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM

Lisa Crabtree

@greengirl67.bsky.social

Go for the Good AZ!
👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻

“This is very much a victory"

“It’s one challenge that has gone in favor of protecting public and sacred lands.

But there are still threats out there.”

#GrandCanyonTrust
#AncestralLands
#NationalParks
#TrechorousTrump
#LyingLiars

raventerp1.bsky.social @raventerp1.bsky.social · Apr 8

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The Grand Canyon Just Won a Massive Legal Victory Against Uranium Mining

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni, protecting nearly one million acres of sacred Indigenous land and critical wildlife habitat from extractive ind...

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April 8, 2026 at 11:00 PM

Amith Hegde

@amithhegde.bsky.social

A filing error put more than 90,000 acres of #YakamaNation #land in the hands of #WashingtonState

By the time the original #map was discovered in the 1930s, it was too late

The #tribe wants it back

#ChiefKamiakin #AncestralLands #TribalNations #LandReclamation #Klickitat
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A filing error put more than 90,000 acres of Yakama Nation land in the hands of Washington state

More than 170 years later, the Yakama are still trying to get their land back.

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December 21, 2024 at 2:15 PM

Curmudge1

@curmudge1.bsky.social

#alaska this FB post was so touching I need to post it here.
#AlaskaNative #HonoringElders #AncestralLands #CulturalPreservation #finaljourneys

If anyone knows this pilot please post info about where we can contribute.
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xploringalaska is feeling delighted.
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July 20, 2026 at 7:03 PM