LANDBACK For The People
Episodes
Organizing for Collective Liberation
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
NDN Launches the Landback Action Network!The LANDBACK Movement has been growing, expanding and creating impact throughout the Indigenous world. Now it...
Art, Swagger, and Creativity in the Movement
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nick sits down with resident uncle, artist, and NDN Store manager JayCee Beyale. JayCee draws inspiration from street art and graffiti, using a combin...
Protect Pe’sla
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Tilsen, Founder & CEO of NDN Collective, sits down with Taylor Gunhammer, local organizer, to discuss the attack on Pe’sla, a sacred site f...
Racism is Expensive
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It takes all of us to organize against racism in our communities. In this episode, Nick sits down with Dr. Valeriah Big Eagle and Wizipan Little Elk G...
Jason Sole
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Sole is back on LANDBACK For The People. Nick and Jason catch up in the Southside of Minneapolis. We dig into Jason’s recent pardon, discuss w...
Silencing a Movement Leader: Nick Tilsen’s Fight for Justice
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back for season 4, and in this first episode, we get personal. As some of you may know, Nick Tilsen, Oglala Lakota, Founder & CEO of NDN C...
Ambler Road
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're diving into what is happening in Alaska. How Indigenous people in Alaska are fighting to protect the ecological biodiversity, their subsistence ...
He Sapa LANDBACK
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk about LANDBACK in the Black Hills. The battle for the Black Hills is the longest legal battle over land in the American judic...
Leonard Peltier
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Nick was 13-years-old he wrote Leonard Peltier a letter. In that letter he said he would fight for his freedom until the day he is free. In this ...
The POW!-er of Storytelling
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Storytelling is the backbone of our movement. In this episode, Nick Tilsen sits down with writer and comedian Joey Clift to talk about how important i...
Protecting Mother Earth Takes All of Us
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Nick Tilsen is joined by Dr. Lilias Jarding, Executive Director of Black Hills Clean Water Alliance, and Taylor Gunhammer, Lead Organi...
Feed the People
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Nick Tilsen is joined by Foster Cournoyer Hogan, NDN Collective Bison Coordinator, and Wizipan Little Elk Garriott, NDN Collective Pre...
Who knew nuns were riding for LandBack!
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Season 3, Episode 6 Nick Tilsen is joined by Brittany Koteles, Executive Director of Land Justice Futures. This organization helps religious land o...
Truth, Reconciliation, Healing & Boarding Schools
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nick sits down with three amazing leaders of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS). NABS is conductin...
Remembering the Children
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Season 3, Episode 4: Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective CEO and Founder, sits down with Amy Sauze, Remembering the Children's Executive Director, and Dr. ...
Brah… We Aren't Going Anywhere
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Season 3, Episode 3: Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective CEO and Founder, joins NDN Collective President Wizipan Little Elk Garriott and Vice President Gab...
Sacred Storm Buffalo
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Tilsen sits down with the guys of Sacred Storm Buffalo to talk about their work, the importance of investing into community-led enterprises, and ...
Community Power
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Season 3 Episode 1: Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective CEO and Founder, sits down with He Sapa Otipi's Executive Director, Cante Heart and Dr. Valeriah Bi...
A Vision for the Future
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this kickoff episode of Season 3 of LANDBACK For the People, Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective's Founder & CEO, welcomes new leadership to NDN Collective...
Black and Indigenous Solidarity
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this final episode of season 2, Nick Tilsen talks with Jason Sole to discuss what being an abolitionist means, the origins of FTP, how the LANDBACK...
Smokehouse Collective
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of LANDBACK FOR THE PEOPLE, Nick Tilsen invites Deenaalee Hodgdon, Co-Executive Director of Smokehouse Collective, Executive Producer ...
Sugarcane
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of LANDBACK FOR THE PEOPLE, Nick Tilsen invites filmmakers Julian Brave Noisecat (former NDN Collective Media Fellow) and Emily Kassie...
Protect the ȞeSápa
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Season 2 Episode 4: Protect the ȞeSápa, Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective President and CEO talks about the the history of mining in the Black Hills of...
The NDNs are coming! ... to Hold Racism Accountable
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Season 2 Episode 3: The NDNs are coming! ... to Hold Racism Accountable, Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective President and CEO talks about the racism towar...
Macklemore
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Independent artist Benjamin Hammond Haggerty – better known by his stage name Macklemore – is the featured guest on this episode. He speaks vulner...
The Red Nation
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Season 2 Episode 1, Nick Tilsen talks with Demetrius Johnson, Kiley Guy and Jennifer Marley from The Red Nation and Red Media. They discuss Indigen...
Ocean Back
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nick Tilsen visits with longtime mentor Dune Lankard, who shares stories and knowledge from his fight to protect his homelands in sou...
Free Leonard Peltier
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For nearly 50 years, Indigenous organizers, activists, and allies have dedicated themselves to fight against the unjust incarceration of Indigenous mo...
Creative Resistance
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Creative Resistance requires the collective force of creativity that lies within Indigenous people to interpret the messages of the movement, leaving ...
Legal Warriors and the fight for Land Liberation
29 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Indigenous people say that we are fighting for LandBack by any means necessary, we aim to address the multi-pronged approach we take within the m...
'Āina Back for the Hawaiian Kingdom
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 3, host Nick Tilsen invites André Perez and Camille Kalama to unpack the ongoing fight for 'Āina Back. As we know, #landback is a global ...
Fighting Racism in the Hesapa
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nick Tilsen sits down with Sunny, Hermus and Anissa, local organizers to Rapid City, SD working on NDN Collective's #RapidCityVsRacis...
Madonna Thunder Hawk: a Matriarch of the Movement
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of LANDBACK FOR THE PEOPLE, Nick Tilsen sits at the table with matriarch Madonna Thunder Hawk (Oohenumpa Lakota). Madonna joking...