He thought to himself, “Why isn’t the English in brackets?” He saw many signs in the English language with the Squamish original place names indicated in parentheses underneath. A self-described “settler,” he said that the idea came to him while driving near his home-traditional Squamish territory. The project is run by Victor Temprano out of British Columbia, Canada. The interactive map will zoom in on your inquiry, color-code it, and pull up data on the area’s Indigenous history, original language, and tribal ties. On the website and in the app, you can enter the ZIP code or Canadian or American name for any town. You might type in New York, New York, for example, and find that the five boroughs are actually traditional Lenape and Haudenosaunee territory. Native Land is both a website and an app that seeks to map Indigenous languages, treaties, and territories across Turtle Island. ![]() Whose land are you on? Start with a visit to native-land.ca. And every place we occupy was once the homeland for other people, most of whom didn’t leave willingly. You cannot find a corner of this continent that does not hold ancient history, Indigenous value, and pre-colonial place names and stories.
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