Several organizations – BOLD Realities, TakingITGlobal, and Canadian Roots Exchange – have worked together to produce a web-based app, Whose.land, to assist users in identifying Indigenous Nations, territories, and Indigenous communities across Canada. The app can be used for learning, for example, about the territory a planned project would be situated on – including overlapping territories, a common complication in project development. Links lead to such information as what would be needed for a land acknowledgement, and the treaties and agreements signed across Canada. Educational videos are available to watch that will provide a better understanding of why land acknowledgements are important, and the way Indigenous people view their relationship to land.
Whose.land partnered with Native-Land.ca to share and coordinate data, including the map. The app consists of six different maps of Indigenous territories, Treaties, and First Nations, Inuit, and Metis communities. Each community's location will eventually host a land acknowledgement video, and other information that the community would like to include on their page.
See also “Indigenous communities third-largest owners of clean energy in Canada,” elsewhere this issue in National News.