Collection: Indigenous Voices

Little District Books occupies land first inhabited and tended to by the Nacotchtank whose territories were unceded then forcibly taken by the colony of Maryland. Washington, DC as a whole sits on the land of the Piscataway into whose confederacy the Nacotchtank were absorbed. Enduring brutal settler violence, the Piscataway migrated away from what is now the DC-Maryland-Virginia area and their lands were occupied by the United States. Despite the broader settler project, many Indigenous peoples and their descendants continued and still continue to live on these lands. We hold that queer liberation is incomplete without recognizing the fullness and abundance of Indigenous life (especially of queer Indigenous peoples) and that our collective liberation depends on land back.