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This edition: LANDBACK: A Tipi Village Takes on Healing & Homelessness


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Episode Details

Original tape date: July 18, 2021. First aired: July 17, 2026.

Host Laura Flanders visits “He Sapa,’’ the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral lands to address homelessness, addiction and violence against Native Americans. Catalyzed in 2020 by an action in which activists blocked President Donald Trump’s road to Mount Rushmore, this Landback campaign is about reclaiming, along with stolen land, native ceremonies, spirituality and traditions of community care. In this special feature, Flanders reports on Camp Mniluzahan, a tipi village built on tribal trust land that welcomed hundreds of unhoused Indigenous people and others in the Rapid City area in the dead of winter. Among her guests — Oglala Lakota activists Nick Tilsen, Krystal Two Bulls and Sunny Red Bear of NDN Collective.

Guest List

Hermus Bettelyoun Racial Equity Organizer, NDN Collective; Oglala Lakota

Sunny Red Bear Director of Racial Equity, NDN Collective; Lakota

Amy Sazue Education Equity Organizer, NDN Collective; Sicangu & Oglala Lakota

Nick Tilsen President & CEO, NDN Collective; Oglala Lakota

Krystal Two Bulls Director of LANDBACK Campaign, NDN Collective; Northern Cheyenne/Oglala Lakota