Appalachian Rekindling Project

The Appalachian Rekindling Project is an Indigenous-led initiative restoring Appalachian lands, relationships, and traditions through rematriation and ecological care. The organization holds lands in Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia. They work to protect Appalachian lands from extraction or harmful industries, to restore lands and invest in the wellbeing of people as supported by land, to establish an intertribal Indigenous center where Native people can physically return and gather in central Appalachia, and to return bison to eastern Kentucky as active restoration method of harmed and threatened land. They use Indigenous knowledge to inform land care practices, planning, consensus voting, and collective work.