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Native Land Digital is a Canadian non-profit website and mobile app that has created a searchable global map of Indigenous territories, languages, and treaties.[1] The website, Native-Land.ca, was created in 2015 by Victor Temprano and incorporated as a non-profit in 2018.[1][2][3][4] As of 2023, Tanya Ruka (a Māori Indigenous artist and designer) is the executive director.[5]
Native Land Digital states that its mission is as follows:
Native Land Digital strives to create and foster conversations about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, through educational resources such as our map and Territory Acknowledgement Guide. We strive to go beyond old ways of talking about Indigenous people and to develop a platform where Indigenous communities can represent themselves and their histories on their own terms. In doing so, Native Land Digital creates spaces where non-Indigenous people can be invited and challenged to learn more about the lands they inhabit, the history of those lands, and how to actively be part of a better future going forward together.[6]
Native Land Digital users can browse the map, or search their city, state, or ZIP code to see which Indigenous communities originally resided in those areas.[4][7][8][9][10] Each Indigenous nation listed includes links to related readings.[2]
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