Decolonization & Landback Toolkit
Our Decolonization & Landback Toolkit is designed to support survivors of religious trauma and spiritual abuse as they navigate repair, reparation, and right relationship with the land in their deconstruction journeys. This collection weaves together learning resources, Reclamation insights shared by Indigenous wisdom keepers, readings on decolonization and embodiment, and practical actions for engaging in solidarity and repair. Rooted in our organizational value that “we value honest conversations surrounding colonization, homophobia, patriarchy, and white supremacy, and aspire to boldly name connections between these oppressive themes within the church,” this toolkit offers both grounding and guidance for those seeking to untangle spiritual healing from systems of domination, while moving toward collective liberation and reconnection with the earth.
Learn about calls for apology and reconciliation by Christian churches:
Video (~90 min): Indigenous Communities, Child-Family Separation, and the Catholic Church: What Do Truth and Healing Require?
Articles
Opinion pieces
Reckoning with Re-education: Christianity’s Role in Native American Boarding Schools
Reconciliation needs to address Canada’s history of spiritual abuse
Apologies
Learning Resources
Native Land Digital: An interactive “living map” of Indigenous peoples worldwide
Indigenous oral histories, records, and maps are prioritized. You can use it to learn about people who lived / now live where you do.
Seen here in 2017, Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Braiding Sweetgrass,” is Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology and Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, in Syracuse, NY. (Photo credit Matt Roth / Courtesy Milkweed Editions)
Reclamation Insights by Indigenous Wisdom Keepers:
All My Relations – podcast (spirituality)
Can a DNA test make me Native American?
Building a Hopeful Future - Native Hope
Reclaiming Indigenous Governance | Native Nations Institute
Putting the Pieces Together: My Journey of Reclaiming Indigeneity | Cultural Survival
Reclaiming Our Indigenous European Roots
"Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Written by an Indigenous botanist, this book invites readers into relationality with land, language, and memory. It decolonizes how we understand science, reciprocity, and wisdom.
Book: The Knowledge Seeker: Embracing Indigenous Spirituality
Tada Hozumi – "Decolonization and the Body"
Resmaa Menakem – My Grandmother’s Hands
Focuses on healing racialized trauma through somatic abolitionism. Centers how white-body supremacy and generational trauma live in the body and how we might metabolize them.
Linda Thai’s Somatic Healing Work
Focuses on intergenerational trauma and nervous system regulation. She speaks about decolonizing the way we think of healing, therapy, and trauma through an embodied, Southeast Asian lens.
https://www.linda-thai.com/
Decolonization and Embodiment:
"The Nap Ministry" – Tricia Hersey
Explores rest as resistance and a portal for reclaiming divinity outside of grind culture and white Christian supremacy.
https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/
Photo by Charlie Watts Photography. It is part of a photography project curated by Tricia Hersey, founder of The Nap Ministry and the photographer.
Practical Action
Use Native Land to learn about Indigenous peoples who lived / now live where you do. What are their experiences? What are their current goals?
Beyond Land Acknowledgment guide
"Land Back: A Primer" – Yellowhead Institute
Free, accessible PDF that explains what Land Back really means—clarifying it’s not metaphorical. Great for disrupting shallow allyship.
https://yellowheadinstitute.org/land-back/Start an Honor Tax: A simple toolkit and an example inspired by the Wiyot Honor Tax
Do you know of a person or group working to uplift Indigenous people or culture? Are they looking to spread awareness or find specific types of support? If so, please contact us and we’ll add them to this list.
Know Someone Doing the Work?
Do you know a person, group, or project working to uplift Indigenous people, restore cultural memory, or resist colonial violence? Especially if they’re seeking support, awareness, or resources—we’d love to add them to this list. Please contact us!