News and stories that create meaning and context for the data housed on the Native Land Information System.
According to our Lost Agriculture Revenue Database, non-Native farmers have made $749,517,889,778 in agricultural revenue (85.7% of total revenue) on Native reservations since 1840, while Native farmers have made $125,018,539,082 (14.3% of total revenue). What factors contribute to this shocking disparity in agricultural revenue? And what do these numbers really represent for Native communities?
Indigenous models of reciprocity and responsibility in land-caretaking offer an alternative to the extractive, exploitative, and commodified ways of relating with the land that are dominant in Western practice.
NLAP and leading Indigenous scholars write about tribal data accessibility, equity, and sovereignty in “Life and Times of Data Access: Regarding Native Lands.”
NLAP is happy to announce two new resource tools for grassland and biodiversity protection: our storymap, Grasslands: The Land and the People that Call it Home, and our Conservation Reserve Program Dashboard!
How well-represented are Native youth in the overall population of Native agriculture producers? What difficulties do Native youth face when
By Raven McMullin It goes without saying that the food system in the United States was created without the intent
By Raven McMullin and Emma Scheerer Using our Agriculture on Native Lands Data Dashboard, you can now explore the age
This blog is the second of two posts analyzing the challenges Native communities face accessing clean, sustainable water. Click here if you’d
The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) will be attending the Intertribal Agriculture Council’s 35th Annual Conference next week, December 6th
What did early reservation agriculture look like? What is the settler colonial myth, and how has it distorted the perception of
This blog is the first of two posts analyzing the challenges Native communities face in accessing clean, sustainable water.
The Native Lands Advocacy Project is pleased to announce Chase Christopherson, Emma Scheerer, and Seanna Pieper-Jordan to the team! Chase
