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You cannot find a corner of this continent that does not hold ancient history, Indigenous value, and pre-colonial place names and stories. And every place we occupy was once the homeland for other people, most of whom didn鈥檛 leave willingly.

Whose land are you on? Start with a visit to . Native Land is both a website and an app that seeks to map Indigenous languages, treaties, and territories across Turtle Island. You might type in New York, New York, for example, and find that the five boroughs are actually traditional Lenape and Haudenosaunee territory.

On the website and in the app, you can enter the ZIP code or Canadian or American name for any town. The interactive map will zoom in on your inquiry, color-code it, and pull up data on the area鈥檚 Indigenous history, original language, and tribal ties.

The project is run by Victor Temprano out of British Columbia, Canada. A self-described 鈥渟ettler,鈥� he said that the idea came to him while driving near his home鈥攖raditional Squamish territory. He saw many signs in the English language with the Squamish original place names indicated in parentheses underneath. He thought to himself, 鈥淲hy isn鈥檛 the English in brackets?鈥�

Temprano emphasizes that Native Land maps are constantly being refined by user input, and he welcomes data submissions. On the website, he also cautions about the nature of mapping. 鈥淚 feel that Western maps of Indigenous nations are very often inherently colonial, in that they delegate power according to imposed borders that don鈥檛 really exist in many nations throughout history. They were rarely created in good faith, and are often used in wrong ways.鈥�

Reorientation to the Indigenous perspective, though, just might offer an entirely new way to experience this continent.

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Chelsey Luger is a journalist from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She is a contributing editor for Indian Country 无码视频 Network and co-founder of the grassroots initiative Well for Culture.

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