The pioneering geographer Bernard Nietschmann once contended “more indigenous territory has been claimed by maps than by guns.” Well, perhaps we would do better to just call it a toss-up. Nietschmann, ...

President Biden became the first president to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day in 2021, and did so again this year. It falls on the same day as Columbus Day, which was first founded as a ...

Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map thousands of square miles, including ...

An online project aims to map all of the world's indigenous lands to secure legal rights and alert communities to the threats of illegal logging and mining BANGKOK, Sept 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

Native Land Digital, a Canadian nonprofit, offers resources for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to learn more about the land and its history.... President Biden became the first president to ...

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