Sovereign Education: Tribal Colleges in the US
About this Dashboard There are 37 tribal colleges throughout the US serving 12,000 students/per year. Tribal colleges and universities are federally supported institutions created to expand higher education access for Native communities while advancing tribal self-determination, language, culture, and workforce development. Their growth has been shaped by key federal laws, including the Tribally Controlled Colleges […]
Available Water in Soil on US Native Lands
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 from the USGS Gridded soil survey for 2016. The “available water in soil” variable from gridded soil surveys refers to the quantity of water that a soil can store and […]
Creating a Historic Loss Assessment, Part 4: Extermination of buffalo and other significant losses
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.
Creating a Historic Loss Assessment, Part 3: Illegal settlements and loss of agricultural revenue
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.
Creating a Historic Loss Assessment, Part 2: Loss of life and Extraction of minerals
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.
Announcing our Webinar Series: Keystone Data Tools for Native Land Planning
The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) is hosting a webinar series on three of our key data tools. Join these 45-minute webinars to learn about our Agriculture on Native Lands dashboard, Land Cover dashboard and map, and Cropland Data Layer dashboard! These free, public data tools are not only powerful for tribal planning on their […]
Creating a Historic Loss Assessment, Part 1: Native history and land dispossession
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.
SSURGO Soil Classification Viewer for US Native Lands
This map shows the canopy cover percentages and land cover types on Reservations and USFS lands.
Introducing the Historic Loss Assessment: Articulating lost lives, land, and resources for the Native Nations in your state
While much of settler colonialism’s harm to Native Nations is unquantifiable, assessments like this provide data that helps tell those Nation’s stories.
Energy & Mineral Revenue From US Native Lands (2008-2020)
About this Dashboard This data dashboard, developed by the Native Lands Advocacy Project, summarizes data from the US Department of Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) for US Native Lands for the period of 2008 through 2020. This dashboard also has the data for all federal lands. 0 Resource Types 0 Land Class 0 Years of […]
Environmental Risks for US Native Lands (Drought, Heat, Rain, Wildfire: 1980-2020)
About this Dashboard This dashboard shows key environmental risks data for US tribal lands to help tribes monitor and assess risks and incorporate them in their land planning and decision-making. Data comes from the recent article: Farrell, J., Burow, P. B., McConnell, K., Bayham, J., Whyte, K., & Koss, G. (2021). Effects of land dispossession […]
Conservation Reserve Program
About this Dashboard This data dashboard summarizes data from the USDA FSA conservation reserve program (CRP) for every eligible county in the United States since the program’s inception in 1986 (data for years 1987-2022). The data in this dashboard shows state and county averages in addition to yearly enrollment and rent totals. Years of Coverage […]