These Water-Focused Data Tools Support Tribal Land & Climate Planning
The Native Land Information System (NLIS) is home to over 120 public, free data tools and resources that were created to support tribal communities in developing climate-smart land management strategies. We are excited to share some of our new water data tools with you, as well as reintroduce you to some of our earlier water-related […]
Keystone Data Tools for Native Land Planning: View the webinar recordings & share your feedback
This month, the Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) wrapped up our webinar series: Keystone Data Tools for Native Land Planning. These webinars introduced attendees to three foundational datasets that Native Nations & citizens can use to make informed, sovereign decisions for their futures: The USDA Census of Agriculture for American Indian Reservations The National Land […]
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.
Federally-funded Projects in Indian Country
About this Dashboard This data dashboard summarizes data about federally-funded projects within tribal boundaries from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Infrastructure Reduction Act. The visualization displays funds amounts and categories of federal project for all tribes for years 2022 through 2025 (it has not been modified for eventual funding freezes resulting from the current […]
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 […]
Bureau of Indian Affairs Budget by Categories
About this Dashboard This data dashboard summarizes data from the United States Secretary of Interior; it features the Bureau of Indian Affairs Yearly Highlights Reports, which show BIA spending by categories, programs and subprograms for years 2022, 2023 and estimates for 2024. We digitized this static report in an effort to visualize the data interactively […]
Introducing the 2022 Updates to the USDA’s Census of Agriculture Dashboard
The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) is pleased to announce that our Agriculture on Native Lands Dashboard is now updated with data from the 2022 Census of Agriculture for American Indian Reservations! These updates, which we examine in this blog post, add to the dashboard’s functionality for users seeking to examine land and agricultural data […]
FSA Spending Dashboard: Insights from 2021 & 2023 Across Native and Non-Native Lands
About this Dashboard This interactive dashboard provides a detailed analysis of USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) program disbursements for 2021 and 2023, offering insights into federal spending on agricultural programs across the United States. The dashboard includes data for all FSA program recipients, providing a comprehensive view of how funds were allocated during these years […]
Announcing Our New Storymap: The Buffalo’s Resilience in the Face of Settler Colonialism
As Native nations reintroduce buffalo to the lands they’ve stewarded since time immemorial, their lands, ecosystems, and communities heal.
The Buffalo’s Resilience in the Face of Settler Colonialism
As Native nations reintroduce buffalo to the lands they’ve stewarded since time immemorial, their lands, ecosystems, and communities heal.
Check Out These Data Tools for Native Farmers & Ranchers
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.
Data Tools for Native Ranchers
This storymap walks through each resource introduced on our “Data for Native Farmers” topic page.
