NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign)

What happened

NDN Collective is an Indigenous-led nonprofit based in the Black Hills area of South Dakota. It describes its core programming as grantmaking, narrative amplification, predevelopment support, low-interest investments, community organizing and power building. Its staff page lists Nick Tilsen as Founder and CEO. ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer lists Ndn Collective Inc of Rapid City as a 501(c)(3), tax exemption issued June 2018.

LANDBACK is its organizing campaign. The landback.org site says that, as NDN Collective, it launched the LANDBACK Campaign "as a mechanism to connect, coordinate, resource and amplify this movement." That site also describes a membership-based LANDBACK Action Network. The organization defines LANDBACK as an Indigenous-led organizing and narrative framework, not only as transfers of title.

One named campaign is He Sapa LandBack. Its page states the goal as returning all public lands in the Black Hills to the Lakota, through organizing and advocacy in support of the federally recognized Lakota tribes and treaty councils. It says the campaign is currently supporting efforts to return federal public lands to the Oceti Sakowin and cites violations of the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties.

Its pages describe goals, campaigns and funding programs. They do not report completed land transfers by NDN Collective.

Good to know. Its LANDBACK work is campaigning, organizing and funding, not completed land transfers. Ask which fund a gift will go to before giving.

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