MapLab: Bearing Witness to Native Land
Whose land are you on? If you’re at home, you might point to the name on the property deed. If you’re out and about, you probably crossed an invisible patchwork of parcel lines held by public and private hands.
But there's another way to read the land, not as a grid of ownership, but as pools of deep Indigenous history. Through this lens, San Francisco sits on Ohlone land. The White House in Washington, D.C., is situated at the confluence of the Pamunkey and Piscataway tribes. The Stoney, Métis, and Woodlands and Plains Cree nations overlap in the province of Alberta, Canada.