
Celebrating NLAP’s Impact in 2024 + 2025
Since 2019, the Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP), a project of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Village Earth, has been honored to provide critical data and technical

Since 2019, the Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP), a project of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Village Earth, has been honored to provide critical data and technical

Publications & Reports Our team is engaged in dynamic academic collaborations and has published articles in a variety of journals. NLAP is also honored to

Learn about three new data tools that allow users to access relevant data about federal investments in Indian Country.

The solution to energy inequity will begin when Tribes have full decision-making power over their lands, resources, and futures.

About this Dashboard This dashboard features a reservation-level view of the available water data in soil on all tribal lands in the US. Data comes

Wind plays a significant role in shaping ecosystems, affecting infrastructure planning, and in overall renewable energy potential. Recognizing this, the Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP)

The new Credit Insecurity dashboard by the Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) provides an at-a-glance understanding of tribal access to credit, revealing key discrepancies on

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day from all of us at the Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP)! To mark this significant holiday, we’d like to take a

Every year, the United States Congress begins the process of appropriating funds for the following fiscal year. While it’s important that voters are aware of

Here’s what we currently know about proposed funding levels for the BIA, BIE, and BTFA as of September 30, 2025.

By calculating land dispossession, this report seeks to not only identify what has been taken from Native peoples but also how this theft became the original source of capital that built Colorado and the West.