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LANDBACK

Indigenous Sovereignty in the Urban Native Era

Landback is an age-old call to action to return stolen land, rights, and culture to Indigenous people. This is exchange is not metaphoric or symbolic, it is literal.


This exhibition explores landback in the Puget Sound through the reclamation of Fort Lawton into Daybreak Star and the fishing rights struggles during

the Urban Native Era

Urban native era in seattle

Learn about Seattle's Urban Native population during the height of the U.S. governments Termination and Relocation policies

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Front page of Indian Center News, by the American Indian Women's Service League

Taking back fort lawton

Explore the Native occupation of Fort Lawton to establish a cultural center for Seattle's Urban Native population.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1970.

The Fish Wars

Learn about the Native fishing rights struggle, the protests sites at Frank's Landing, and the landmark Boldt Decision that guaranteed Native fishing rights in Washington state.

Al Bridges speaking through a bullhorn at Frank's Landing, Seattle 1970

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