Native Land is diligent in helping users understand that often instead of answers, educating oneself leads to further questions.
In an age with an overwhelming supply of information mixed with opinions, it is easy for us to oversimplify important content. With this expanded team, Native Land is currently adding historical background necessary to delve deeper, hoping to offer more than just a simple understanding of the people who lived in your area. The project has since incorporated as a not-for-profit organization (as of December 2018) and is now led by an Indigenous executive director and board along with some non-Indigenous members. I am open to criticism about this project and I welcome suggestions and changes.” They were rarely created in good faith, and are often used in wrong ways.
An old about page from the project’s early days describes the initial mission and scope of work: “I feel that Western maps of Indigenous nations are very often inherently colonial, in that they delegate power according to imposed borders that don’t really exist in many nations throughout history.
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Anyone can type in their address and see which Native peoples lived in that same area and what languages were spoken.ĭespite his affinity for mapmaking, Temprano didn't initially develop Native Land as a professional map or official resource, but as a tool to spark conversation about the current mapmaking completed using colonial thinking. That being said, there is an interactive element to this map that helps viewers fully realize that Indigenous people have lived all across the land at one time.
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