Native-led organization
Aloha Kuamo'o 'Aina
Owns and restores a 47-acre historic site at Kuamo'o purchased for conservation in 2015 with Trust for Public Land
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Amah Mutsun Land Trust
Indigenous stewardship of Mutsun homeland
Native-led organization
Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (ARO)
Rematriation of Ramaytush ancestral homeland
Nation government
Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition
Tribal co-management and protection of Bears Ears National Monument
Native-led organization
California Indian Basketweavers Association (CIBA)
Access to traditional gathering sites on public and tribal lands, basketry traditions, cultural fire education
Nation government
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes
Seeking return of about 6,700 acres at Fort Reno
Native-led organization
Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP)
Youth programs
Native-led organization
Colorado Plateau Foundation
Grants to Native-led organizations protecting Colorado Plateau lands, waters and cultures
Nation government
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT)
National Bison Range restoration (about 18,800 acres)
Nation government
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Rocky Shores parcel near Yachats (about 7 acres, purchase pending as of Oct 2026)
Native-led organization
Cultural Fire Management Council (CFMC)
Cultural burning on the Yurok Reservation and ancestral lands
Native-led organization
Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return)
Reparative philanthropy
Native-led organization
Dream of Wild Health
Owns a 30-acre farm in Hugo MN
Native-led organization
Duwamish Tribal Services (Real Rent Duwamish)
Real Rent Duwamish: Seattle residents pay voluntary 'rent'
Native-led organization
Esselen Tribe of Monterey County
Land reclamation: Adler Ranch (1,199 acres, 2020), Tularcitos Creek Parcels of historic Rana Creek Ranch
Nation government
Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC)
Ojibwe treaty rights in ceded territories, natural resource stewardship, manoomin, and a Land Conservancy program…
Native-led organization
Great Plains Action Society
ReMatriation, land defense, Protect the Sacred, regenerative economy, civic engagement in Iowa and eastern Nebraska
Native-led organization
Honor the Earth
Pipeline resistance, sovereignty, energy justice
Native-led organization
Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute
Hopi land stewardship, food sovereignty and regional food hub
Nation government
Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians
1,327 acres near Wilderness Pines Campground (2025, per BDN)
Native-led organization
Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF)
Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners
Native-led organization
Indian Law Resource Center
Legal assistance to Indigenous nations to protect lands, resources, treaty and human rights
Native-led organization
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
Environmental and climate justice
Native-led organization
Indigenous Land Relationship Fund (Oregon Land Justice Project / Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts), allied host
Funds Indigenous-led projects to reclaim and reconnect to land and First Foods in Oregon
Nation government
Intertribal Agriculture Council (IAC)
Conserving and protecting Tribal trust agricultural land, technical assistance, regenerative agriculture and Land,…
Nation government
InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
Land conservation and return of coastal Sinkyone lands to tribal stewardship (nearly 5,000 acres protected)
Native-led organization
KAHEA: The Hawaiian-Environmental Alliance
Protection of sacred summits, cultural rights and the 'aina
Native-led organization
Kai Poma
Receive and steward Blues Beach (136 acres), first state-owned land transfer of its kind in California per ActiveNorCal
Nation government
Koy'o Land Conservancy (Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe)
Restoring traditional homelands to tribal members
Native-led organization
Kulāiwi Land Trust
Return of Native Hawaiian lands to Native Hawaiians for culture, education, health and wellbeing
Nation government
Kumeyaay Diegueno Land Conservancy (KDLC)
Acquiring and preserving sacred and culturally sensitive lands in Kumeyaay aboriginal territory
Native-led organization
Lakota People's Law Project (program of Sacred Defense Fund)
Legal advocacy
Allied land trust
Lowlander Center (allied)
Place-based adaptation and community-led relocation/rebuilding with tribal partners (Pointe-au-Chien rebuild)
Native-led organization
Maidu Summit Consortium
Reacquisition and stewardship of Mountain Maidu ancestral lands
Allied land trust
McKenzie River Trust
Brokered and fundraised for Rocky Shores parcel near Yachats (about 7 acres, pending as of Oct 2026)
Nation government
Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria
450 acres (2026), first ancestral land return in the Big Chico Creek watershed
Nation government
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
Restoration of about 200,000 acres to reservation status (1975)
Nation government
Mi'kmaq Nation
3,400+ acre Bridgewater parcel (June 2026, $1.9M)
Native-led organization
Na'ah Illahee Fund
Indigenous-led regranting for Land Back (building on E'lip Tilikum Land Conservancy), land and water protection,…
Nation government
NANA Regional Corporation
Nearly 28,000 acres transferred under ANCSA (HCN)
Native-led organization
Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources
Native-led organization
Native Conservancy (Cordova, Alaska)
LandBack, OceanBack and PeopleBack programs: Native-led conservation trusts, regenerative mariculture, return of…
Native-led organization
Native Governance Center
Strengthening Native nation governance and capacity to exercise sovereignty
Native-led organization
Native Land Conservancy (Massachusetts)
Native-led land conservation
Native-led organization
Native Movement (Alaska)
Indigenous rights, environmental justice, food sovereignty and grassroots organizing (not a land buyer)
Native-led organization
Native Seeds/SEARCH
Seed bank and seed return to Indigenous growers (Rematriation Seed Donations program)
Native-led organization
NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign)
LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous…
Native-led organization
Nisenan Miwok Collective
Land return, rematriation and stewardship in Southern Hill Nisenan territory
Allied land trust
Nolumbeka Project (allied)
Protecting the Wissatinnewag multi-tribal village site
Nation government
Oneida Indian Nation
About 18,000 acres in trust (2022 est.), 25,000-acre cap under 2013 agreement
Native-led organization
Owamniyomni Okhodayapi (formerly Friends of the Falls)
Dakota-led restoration and return of care for sacred St. Anthony Falls (Owamniyomni) site in Minneapolis, with…
Allied land trust
Pacific Forest Trust
Stewarded the land for 20 years before ~900-acre return near Yosemite (Dec 2025)
Native-led organization
Paepae o He'eia
Stewardship of He'eia Fishpond (land is owned by Kamehameha Schools; Paepae manages it), education and food production
Allied land trust
Peace Development Fund (Land Back Peace Fund), allied
Land Back Peace Fund to move or restore lands to Indigenous organizations
Nation government
Penobscot Nation
735 acres (Elliotsville Foundation, Oct 2020)
Native-led organization
Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust
Land repatriation: reclaiming ancestral land in Massachusetts and Rhode Island for tribal stewardship
Native-led organization
Potlatch Fund
Native philanthropy and grantmaking to Native individuals and Native-led organizations
Nation government
Puyallup Tribe of Indians
1989 Land Claims Settlement (about $162-163M)
Nation government
Rappahannock Tribe (Rappahannock Indian Tribe)
Land Back (reacquiring ancestral land along the Rappahannock River, Indian Neck), cultural landscape protection,…
Native-led organization
Rematriation
Indigenous women-led media, education, community advocacy
Native-led organization
Right Relationship Boulder (Land Group)
Funds tribal youth camps and gatherings, plant-gathering access, trail content with tribes, pushes for tribal…
Nation government
Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Oyate)
Pe' Sla (1,942 acres, Nov 30, 2012)
Native-led organization
Save California Salmon
Salmon and river policy advocacy
Allied land trust
Save the Redwoods League
Transferred 125 acres ('O Rew Redwoods Gateway) to the Yurok Tribe (announced July 28, 2026 per yuroktribe.org)
Native-led organization
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous self-determination, cultural revitalization, land and ecological stewardship
Native-led organization
Shinnecock Kelp Farmers
Indigenous kelp farming and Shinnecock Bay restoration
Native-led organization
Siċaŋġu Co (Sicangu Community Development Corporation; Wolakota Buffalo Range)
Sicangu Lakota economic engine incl. Wolakota Buffalo Range, food sovereignty initiative, local foods
Native-led organization
Sogorea Te' Land Trust
Return of land to Indigenous people
Nation government
Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation
About 900 acres returned Dec 2025
Native-led organization
Spruce Root (Seacoast Trust / Sustainable Southeast Partnership)
Indigenous-led conservation funding: Indigenous Guardians, community forest partnerships, food sovereignty in…
Nation government
Stockbridge-Munsee Community (Band of Mohican Indians)
372 acres on Monument Mountain's north slope (finalized Apr 2025; $2.5M, $2.26M state grant)
Native-led organization
Tanka Fund
Returning buffalo to Native American lands, lives and economies via animals, grants and technical assistance to…
Nation government
Taos Pueblo
Blue Lake return, 48,000 acres, Dec 15, 1970 (Pub. L. 91-550)
Nation government
Tataviam Land Conservancy
Land rematriation for the Fernandeno Tataviam in northern Los Angeles County
Native-led organization
Tewa Women United
Native women-led environmental, reproductive and gender justice work in Tewa homelands, including environmental…
Native-led organization
The Hopi Foundation
Hopi community self-determination, capacity building, leadership programs and Hopi radio
Allied land trust
The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Funder/partner in several tribal land returns
Native-led organization
Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation (Lakota Land Systems)
Lakota-led regenerative community development on Pine Ridge: Lakota Land Systems
Native-led organization
Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy
Tongva-led conservancy that bought an acre of ancestral land in Altadena (return announced 2022)
Allied land trust
Trust for Public Land (TPL)
Land conservation
Nation government
Tule River Indian Tribe
17,030 acres (Yowlumne Hills) with tule elk reintroduction, Oct 2025
Nation government
United Houma Nation
Tribal services and programs, tribal properties and renovations, tribal self-determination
Nation government
United Tribes of Bristol Bay (UTBB)
Long-term guardianship of lands, air and waters, Tribal self-determination
Native-led organization
Utah Diné Bikéyah (UDB)
Protecting ancestral Native American lands in the Bears Ears region
Nation government
Wabanaki Alliance
Tribal sovereignty and land rights in Maine (MICSA/Settlement Act reform, tribal lands education, legislative advocacy)
Native-led organization
Wabanaki REACH
Truth-seeking, decolonization education and Wabanaki wellbeing
Nation government
Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California
WélmeltiɁ Preserve (10,274 acres), held by the Waší·šiw Land Trust (tribal)
Allied land trust
Western Rivers Conservancy
Buys river land and transfers to tribes (Blue Creek 47,097 acres to Yurok; Adler Ranch 1,199 acres to Esselen)
Native-led organization
White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP)
Recover the original White Earth reservation land base
Native-led organization
Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation
Chumash cultural lifeways, watershed and coastal protection, litigation, Chumash Village stewardship, Chumash…
Nation government
Wiyot Tribe
Stewardship of Tuluwat (Duluwat) Island, returned Oct 21, 2019
Nation government
Yurok Tribe
Blue Creek Salmon Sanctuary and Yurok Tribal Community Forest (47,097 acres)
Other checked organizations and programs
- Bears Ears Partnership (formerly Friends of Cedar Mesa)Conservation, visitor education and stewardship in the Bears Ears region; works with tribal partners
- California Indian Legal Services (CILS)Legal representation on tribal sovereignty, natural resource protection and Indian rights; free or low-cost se
- California Natural Resources Agency (Tribal Nature-Based Solutions Program)Funds tribal land acquisitions; CNRA says the program has returned 40,574.94 acres statewide with $100M+ inves
- Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL)Administers about 203,981 acres of Hawaiian Home Lands trust; 47,086 lease applications by 29,451 beneficiarie
- First Nations Development InstituteEconomic development; Stewarding Native Lands; Tribal Lands Conservation Fund; Native Agriculture and Food Sys
- Hawai'i Land Trust (formerly Hawaiian Islands Land Trust)Land conservation; not stated as Native Hawaiian-led
- Kua'aina Ulu 'Auamo (KUA)Community-based resource management; E Alu Pu network of 32+ communities; fishponds; Act 203 co-management pat
- Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (U.S. Department of the Interior)Purchased fractionated interests from willing individual owners and restored them to tribal trust: nearly 3 mi
- Native Hawaiian Legal CorporationKuleana and family land rights, quiet title defense, Hawaiian Home Lands, ceded lands trust, water and access
- Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA)Advocacy, land management, grants; elected nine-member Board of Trustees
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- Apache Stronghold
- Cherokee Preservation Foundation
- Diné CARE (Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment)
- First Light (Maine land-based organizations collaborative)
- Grand Canyon Trust (allied)
- Great Basin Water Network
- Hui Aloha 'Aina Momona
- Indian Canyon Mutsun Band of Costanoan
- Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw
- Ka Honua Momona (Moloka'i)
- Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
- Mattaponi Indian Tribe and Reservation (via Mattaponi Cultural Foundation)
- Mid Klamath Watershed Council (MKWC)
- Miwok Archeological Preserve of Marin (MAPOM)
- Nanticoke Indian Association
- Native American Land Conservancy (Banning, CA)
- Nvn-nes-'a Land Trust
- Pamunkey Indian Tribe
- Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
- Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians
- Seeding Sovereignty
- Shared Spaces Foundation
- Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center
- Spirit Lake Nation
- The Conservation Fund
- The Cultural Conservancy
- Tonatierra Community Development Institute
- Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship
- Western Shoshone Defense Project (WSDP)