Guide to Indigenous Lands: A Digital Mapping Project

The Guide to Indigenous Lands Project is an initiative dedicated to the creation of mobile applications that map sites of Indigenous importance. This public humanities and public history project offers affiliated apps in both iOS and Android formats, all of which are free to download. If you are interested in creating a Guide to Indigenous Lands for your city, tribal territory, state, ancestral lands, institution, university, or school, please reach out to Dr. Elizabeth Rule using the contact page. You can learn more at GuideToIndigenousLands.com

Guide to Indigenous DC

Guide to Indigenous DC is a walking tour map featuring sites of importance to Native peoples across the nation’s capital. The Guide emphasizes Indigenous peoples’ contributions to Washington, DC, highlights the historical and contemporary federal tribal policy developed in the city, and acknowledges the peoples whose homelands upon which the District of Columbia was built. The Guide showcases the empowering stories of how Washington, DC is a place of tribal history, gathering, and advocacy with a long, rich history.

Guide to Indigenous Baltimore

The place now known as Baltimore, like the rest of what is now known as the United States of America, has always been home to Native peoples. Baltimore is part of the ancestral homelands of the Piscataway and the Susquehannock, and a diverse host of American Indian folks from other nations have passed through or lived here at different times — and still do! In the mid-twentieth century, thousands of Lumbee Indians and members of other tribal nations migrated to Baltimore City, seeking jobs and a better quality of life. They created a vibrant, intertribal American Indian community, which they affectionately referred to as “the reservation.”

Guide to Indigenous Baltimore

Guide to Indigenous Maryland is a multi-faceted community engagement initiative of the Maryland State Library Agency and Maryland’s public libraries. Through the development and curation of educational resources, the project aims to teach Marylanders about the history of local Native and Indigenous peoples and how their heritage influences contemporary life in Maryland. Content for the app and website are based on crowdsourced contributions and recommendations from individual Native and Indigenous Marylanders, as well as tribal nations heritage organizations, in collaboration with Maryland’s public libraries