Equitable Access to Land
In Albuquerque and surrounding communities, residents can elect to redistribute a portion of their wealth to Indigenous communities on Tiwa land through the grassroots Honor Native Land Tax . These recurring contributions acknowledge the legacies of settler colonialism and support the Pueblo Action Alliance and The Red Nation in their movements for land, water, and Native liberation. This powerful project underscores the injustices of land (dis)possession in New Mexico and offers one approach to chip away at it. But it also raises questions about underlying structures and systems. At a governmental level, what kinds of policies could address inequitable land access? How might local, state, and federal policymakers support community-led efforts? In what some advocates have termed an “emerging solidarity economy,” community coalitions have devised many creative solutions to the challenge of inequitable land access. [1] For example, the first community land trust developed in Georgi...