If you are in the United States and want to know which Indigenous lands you are on, you can use the Native Land map. This interactive map shows Indigenous territories, languages, and treaties across the world in a way that goes beyond colonial ways of thinking in order to better represent how Indigenous people want to see themselves. To use the map, you can type your city, state, or ZIP code into a search bar to see which Indigenous communities resided there. The tool includes an option to apply "settler labels" to see how the map corresponds with todays state borders. As you click on the names of Indigenous nations, youll find links to related readings.
Its important to note that many places in the Americas have been home to different Native Nations over time, and many Indigenous people no longer live on lands to which they have ancestral ties. Even so, Native Nations, communities, families, and individuals today sustain their sense of belonging to ancestral homelands and protect these connections through Indigenous languages, oral traditions, ceremonies, and other forms of cultural expression.
