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Introducing the Climate Data Portal for U.S. Native Lands
The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) is thrilled to announce the launch of our Climate Data Portal for U.S. Native Lands! Developed with funding from
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.
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.
Introducing Our New Storymap: Good Fire: Mitigating Wildfire Risk & Healing Native Lands
The Native Lands Advocacy Project is happy to announce our newest storymap: Good Fire: Mitigating Wildfire Risk & Healing Native Lands!
New Data Tools for Fire Stewardship on Native Lands
The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) is excited to highlight three data tools related to fire on U.S. Native lands. These three tools (our Thermal
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.
Soil Organic Carbon Planning, Key to Building Tribal Climate Resiliency
As tribes continue to experience the impacts of climate change on their lands and communities, they are starting to invest more of their resources and planning strategies into protecting and enhancing their soil organic carbon (SOC).
Assessing Food Resilience on Native Reservations: the Good Food Access Indicator
NLAP’s Good Food Access Indicator (GFAI) helps Native communities challenge those who look at Native food systems through a deficit lens by creating a new way to measure food access on the reservation.
Crop Diversity on Native Lands
Our new Cropland Diversity data dashboard is the first index of Cropland Diversity ever calculated and published for US Native Lands. What findings does this dashboard reveal? And why does this data matter?
The Power of Asdzáán in Agriculture: Data Shows Native Female Majority Among Navajo Operators
Of the 73 reservations that participated in 2017 Census of Agriculture, only the Navajo Nation and the Umatilla Confederated Tribes reported a Native female majority among their agricultural operators.
Reservation Croplands: How Native Farmers and Ranchers Can Leverage the USDA’s Cropland Data Layer for Land Planning
In 2022, there were about 110 million acres of cropland (5.7%) on Native American reservations (including on-reservation and off-reservation trust lands). What are these croplands and land covers? How have they changed over time? Why does this data matter?
Quantifying Disparities in Agricultural Revenue on Native Lands
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?
Introducing New Resource Tools for Grassland Protection and Restoration
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!
Rivers of Broken Promises: An Exploration of the Water Challenges Faced by Lakota Communities
This blog is the first of two posts analyzing the challenges Native communities face in accessing clean, sustainable water.
New Tool for Native Land Caretakers: The Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP)
According to the NLIS’s National Land Cover Database dashboard, in 2019, there were approximately 26 million acres of rangeland within Native American reservations and off-reservation
