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In middle of a fireside conversation last night about the surge of Indigenous activism and #LandBack, I mentioned that Bolivia had designated 23% of its national territory as Indigenous Territories since 1990. Their eyes widened. (map: @FundacionTIERRA 2010)
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This fact, with all its limitations, feels like a very healthy starting point for thinking through the possibilities in North America, where Federal land control is vast. (map, radicalcartography.net)
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As the blank spaces inside the red-outlined territories indicate above, a huge asterisk hangs over designated territories in Bolivia, only 52% of which (12.4M hectares ~ 12% of national territory) are were fully titled to Indigenous collective ownership as of 2015.
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Report on the threats to Indigenous territory in Bolivia by @FundacionTIERRA, 2015: ftierra.org/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=att_download&link_id=130&cf_id=52