Audience(s): Tribes, non-tribal government partners, NGO partners
Tribal Stewardship Policy Priorities: Ancestral Land Return; Collaboration; Access; Durability
Objectives: The Basics of Property Law for Tribal Stewardship toolkit highlights the basic property law tools that might be used to advance stewardship through ancestral land return, collaboration, and access.
This toolkit entry was developed to support the implementation of California Natural Resources Agency’s Tribal Stewardship Policy and Toolkit. These tools are intended to increase the capacity of tribes, state agencies, and non-tribal entities to advance tribal stewardship, including tribal access, collaboration, and ancestral land return according to the CNRA Tribal Stewardship Policy.
This toolkit entry includes a webinar, where viewers hear from Agency staff and the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) on how to use a range of legal tools from those that enable sharing of space, to those that enable full title transfer. In addition to SELC’s toolkit for land return, this entry includes mapping and data resources that may be helpful in identifying land for tribal stewardship.
- Understanding Property Ownership in California: A Guide to Geospatial Data Sources
- County-Level Ownership Search Guide
- Seeds of Land Return Toolkit by Sustainable Economies Law Center
- Seeds of Land Return White Paper by Sustainable Economies Law Center
- Seeds of Land Return Toolkit Video Walk-through by Sustainable Economies Law Center
- How to conduct your own reporting and research on state trust lands by Grist
- Considerations for State and Federal Landback by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
Resources
- Sustainable Economies Law Center Radical Real Estate Law School
- Sustainable Economies Law Center Legal Cafe
- Learn more about federally-recognized tribal land ownership and governance
