Indigenous Peoples Day - interactive map of tribal lands

[Michelle]

I stumbled upon this cool map and thought it was nice to recognize the people who once lived on the land I currently occupy. If you're interested, check it out.


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[sonrisa]

Thanks.

I live on Coastal Miwok land

[picksthemusic]

I knew this already, but I'm on Snohomish land.

[sugarbear1]

I'm on the tribal land of the Duwamish.

[underwaterrhymes]

I am on Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Miami, Peoria and Ho-chunk land.

[Michelle]

I love that some of you knew this already. When I attend conferences in Illinois, there is always acknowledgement of the indigenous peoples who once occupied the land on which the conference is taking place. I love that, and I never see that happen in Texas.

I live on Karankawa, Atakapa, and Coahuiltecan land. My office is on Coahuiltecan land.

[loira]

I love that land acknowledgements are catching on. I also knew this already and live on the traditional territory of the Songhees and Lekwungen peoples.

[InBetweenDays]

Thank you for sharing that. I knew I was on Suquamish land but the map lists both Suquamish and Duwamish which I wasn't aware of.

ETA: The land acknowledgement statements that are usually given here always acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples but rarely do they acknowledge the specific tribe(s). 

[AJL]

I live on Coahuiltecan and Tonkawa land.

My grandfather's people and where my mother was born/grew up (Morelia, Mich., MX) is Iréchikwa Ts’intsúntsani (aka P’urhépecha).

[penguingrrl]

I’m on the home of the Lenapehoking (also calledLenni Lenape), which I first learned in 4th grade. Our nearest neighbors, only 2 miles away, were the Munsee Lenape. I love knowing whose ancestral land to acknowledge as it’s been commonly done in my professional circles for quite some time (history museum work).

[chickadee77]

We are on the land of the Yuchi. I only know this because my daughter and I recently researched it as part of our history study. I have learned so much already about the history of the Americas that I never knew (I highly recommend Before Columbus:The Americas of 1491 by Charles C. Mann. It was published in 2009, so I guess there may be updated info out there, but after my own white-washed/non-existent history education, this was so eye-opening).

[CrazyLucky]

Oct 14, 2024 18:46:08 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

I’m on the home of the Lenapehoking (also calledLenni Lenape), which I first learned in 4th grade. Our nearest neighbors, only 2 miles away, were the Munsee Lenape. I love knowing whose ancestral land to acknowledge as it’s been commonly done in my professional circles for quite some time (history museum work).

I also live on Lenni Lenape land.  Your comment is interesting to me because I never learned that in school.  When my kids moved here in third and fifth grade, they did learn about it and corrected my pronunciation of Lenape.
I was also happy to see the Lumbees, where we used to live, represented on this map.  They fight so hard for recognition.

[penguingrrl]

Oct 15, 2024 8:08:08 GMT -5 CrazyLucky said:

Oct 14, 2024 18:46:08 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

I’m on the home of the Lenapehoking (also calledLenni Lenape), which I first learned in 4th grade. Our nearest neighbors, only 2 miles away, were the Munsee Lenape. I love knowing whose ancestral land to acknowledge as it’s been commonly done in my professional circles for quite some time (history museum work).

I also live on Lenni Lenape land.  Your comment is interesting to me because I never learned that in school.  When my kids moved here in third and fifth grade, they did learn about it and corrected my pronunciation of Lenape.
I was also happy to see the Lumbees, where we used to live, represented on this map.  They fight so hard for recognition.

Hi neighbor! I feel like my 4th grade teacher was ahead of her time with that, honestly. She is a super cool lady (I’m still in touch with her) and I think she researched it herself!

[sent]

Oct 15, 2024 8:23:28 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

Oct 15, 2024 8:08:08 GMT -5 CrazyLucky said:

I also live on Lenni Lenape land.  Your comment is interesting to me because I never learned that in school.  When my kids moved here in third and fifth grade, they did learn about it and corrected my pronunciation of Lenape.
I was also happy to see the Lumbees, where we used to live, represented on this map.  They fight so hard for recognition.

Hi neighbor! I feel like my 4th grade teacher was ahead of her time with that, honestly. She is a super cool lady (I’m still in touch with her) and I think she researched it herself!

We also learned it in 4th grade. I recall it being an early chapter in the social studies textbook. I also remember that the other 4th grade class got to take a field trip to visit a site? village? of the Lenape and my class didn’t get to take that same field trip.

[penguingrrl]

Oct 15, 2024 9:38:08 GMT -5 sent said:

Oct 15, 2024 8:23:28 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

Hi neighbor! I feel like my 4th grade teacher was ahead of her time with that, honestly. She is a super cool lady (I’m still in touch with her) and I think she researched it herself!

We also learned it in 4th grade. I recall it being an early chapter in the social studies textbook. I also remember that the other 4th grade class got to take a field trip to visit a site? village? of the Lenape and my class didn’t get to take that same field trip.

They probably went to Waterloo Village! That was where my class went. I was sick that day and missed it and it still makes me sad. My mom took me over the summer to make up for it. They were a great site, but closed years ago due to fraud.

[Scout'sHonor]

Cheyenne, Arapaho and Ute lands here

[StrawberryBlondie]

I knew this already, but Dakota.

[katyintx]

This was pretty interesting to me. I live less than 1/4 mile from tribal land right now and their community is centered less than a mile away, so I assumed that was the land I would be on.

Surprisingly their tribal lands are shown an hour-ish north, and it shows me on the land of a different Dakota tribe. Of course then I went down a mini-rabbit hole and found out so much more information…

[mrsukyankee]

Unsurprisingly, I grew up on Susquehanonck territory (where the river flows).

[macmars45]

I live on Yakama land. I knew that without the map though; the Yakama reservation isn't far from me.