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Native Land
Mapping Indigenous lands in a way that changes, challenges, and improves the way people see history and contemporary conditions. It creates spaces where non-Indigenous people can learn more about the lands they inhabit, the history of those lands, and how to actively be part of a better future going forward together.
Exploring the Map: The Mississippi River (from North America: Portrait of a Continent)
Explore North America through this contemporary hand-drawn map and this video, that follows the Mississippi River and explores more than just the banks of the river, including Chicago, the Ozarks, and Acadiana.
Upper Harbor Terminal: Can Minneapolis invest in its north side without pushing people out of their neighborhoods?
A Mini-Mississippi River May Help Save Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast
The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal
What to consider when acknowledging you are on stolen Indigenous lands
Land acknowledgement statements are increasingly common practice, but as they are developed, this article reminds us to ask “Are you doing it to make yourself feel better or to ease your guilt? Are you doing it because you agree that education is really important? Is there something that can come out of it?”
Mapping the benefits of the world’s largest lakes
After the Storm: How Hurricane Katrina and the murder of Emmett Till shaped one woman’s commitment to climate justice
Making Room for Floods in the Midwest
Vintage EPA photos reveal what US waterways looked like before pollution was regulated
