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.
Data Tools for Native Ranchers
Data Tools for Native Ranchers While the NLIS hosts a variety of resources related to agriculture on Native lands, this page highlights those that are specifically relevant to Native ranchers. Native ranchers are major contributors to their reservation economies, food systems, and land stewardship. The Native Lands Advocacy Project is committed to producing data tools […]
Data Tools for Native Farmers
This storymap walks through each resource introduced on our “Data for Native Farmers” topic page.
Climate Data Portal for US Native Lands
Climate Data Portal for US Native Lands A toolkit to support sovereign climate planning on Native Lands This Climate Data Portal is thoughtfully designed to align with the non-linear, holistic approach tribes take when addressing climate adaptation. Drawing inspiration from the teachings of indigenous world views, which emphasize that the five basic needs of life—food, fire, […]
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.
Data Tools for Native Farmers
Data Tools for Native Farmers While the NLIS hosts a variety of resources related to agriculture on Native lands, this page highlights those that are specifically relevant to Native farmers. Native farmers are major contributors to their reservation economies, food systems, and land stewardship. The Native Lands Advocacy Project is committed to producing data tools […]
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.
Renewable Energy Production on US Native Lands
About this Dashboard This dashboard features current renewable energy production (wind, solar, biomass, and hydroelectric) on US Native Lands. It combines data from two sources: (1) the NREL Biofuel Atlas 2019, which shows operable electric generating plants for wind, solar, and geothermal sources sourced from the Energy Information Administration (2017), and (2) “Tracking the Sun,” a […]
Crop Diversity on US Native Lands
About this Dashboard The Crop Diversity Dashboard is an estimate of the relative diversity of crops grown on tribal lands. We use the Simpson’s Index of Diversity to estimate crop diversity from both the variety of crops grown and their respective acres within each reservation, with 0 meaning no crop diversity and 1 meaning infinite […]
