Honor Native Land Fund
We are on Native land.
The Honor Native Land Fund (HNLF) is an opportunity for non-Native people living in the Midwest to contribute to the rematration* of land to Indigenous stewardship. Through supporting land return, participants in HNLF acknowledge that we live on Indigenous homelands while taking practical steps toward repair.
HNLF believes that returning land to Indigenous peoples is a necessary part of the racial and ecological healing our society needs.
What Does the Fund Do?
HNLF financially supports the land rematriation and land reunion efforts of Indigenous-led projects. Since 2023, we have partnered with the Great Plains Action Society, which seek to purchase and heal land in Iowa in order to “ignite a reclamation of Indigenous agency and sovereignty and rebuild our ancient relationship with the environment.” In 2025, we also began to partner with Reaffirming Indigenous Ways in Nebraska.
*100% of the money raised by HNLF goes toward the land rematriation efforts of these Indigenous-led projects.
Colonization and Climate
Since the colonization of this continent, over 98% of private agricultural land in the U.S. is now owned and controlled by by white people and white institutions. Due to this colonization, the Midwest has now lost over 99% of prairie, over 90% of wetlands, and a third of our topsoil — all major contributions to our current climate crisis.
Indigenous people make up only 5% of the
world’s population, but
steward 80% of the
world’s biodiversity
What is Rematriation?
Rematriation refers to the Indigenous-led work of restoring sacred relationships between Indigenous people and their ancestral land.
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