Thanks for Coming, Now Give the Land Back: Indigenous Ecofeminism and Remaking Worlds

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Indigenous feminisms offer vital frameworks for survival, restoration, and futurity in a world shaped by colonialism, climate crisis, and racial capitalism. Centering Indigenous histories of resistance, relational land ethics, and traditional ecological knowledge this presentation makes visible a time before colonialism while simultaneously pointing toward futures beyond it. In contrast to apocalyptic narratives that frame collapse as inevitable, Indigenous ecofeminisms insist that diversity, biological, cultural, and epistemological, is not only valuable but essential to survivance. Drawing on Land Back movements and land restoration efforts across California, including work with the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab at Cal Poly Humboldt, this talk highlights how Indigenous science, food sovereignty, and cultural fire practices are actively remaking social and ecological worlds. Ultimately, this presentation asks what ecofeminism means in a world on fire and what it means to restore fire, land, and feminist structures to culture and society. Indigenous ecofeminism offers a place-based praxis for naming injustice, dismantling settler colonial logics, and building futures beyond settler colonialism.

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