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The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) compiles, consolidates, and visualizes data resources to support sovereign, sustainable, Native-led land planning and protection.
July 3, 2025
News and stories that create meaning and context for the data housed on the Native Land Information System.
The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) compiles, consolidates, and visualizes data resources to support sovereign, sustainable, Native-led land planning and protection.
The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) was founded in 2019 to provide much-needed data support to Native American communities. As
The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) is pleased to announce our new Sponsorship Program, which allows organizations to pledge funds
The Native Land Information System (NLIS) is home to over 120 public, free data tools and resources that were created
This month, the Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) wrapped up our webinar series: Keystone Data Tools for Native Land Planning.
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.
The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) is hosting a webinar series on three of our key data tools. Join these
What climate concerns do tribes across the United States share? How do these climate concerns vary by region? Our Tribal Climate Literature Review identifies preliminary answers to these questions and provides insights to empower tribal climate planning.
The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) is pleased to announce that our Agriculture on Native Lands Dashboard is now updated
The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) is thrilled to announce the launch of our Climate Data Portal for U.S. Native
As Native nations reintroduce buffalo to the lands they’ve stewarded since time immemorial, their lands, ecosystems, and communities heal.
Native farmers and ranchers are major contributors to their reservation economies, food systems, and land stewardship. Recognizing this, NLAP has created dedicated pages of Data Tools for Native Farmers and Data Tools for Native Ranchers. Read more about these pages here.
Tribes in the U.S. have always faced obstacles accessing data about their lands. Now, public data erasure is making it worse!
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