OUR FUTURE IS IN OUR LANDS
Welcome to the Native Land Information System (NLIS), a repository of learning resources, information, and data to help defend and protect Native lands for the benefit of Native peoples.
What's New on the NLIS?
Elements of the Native Land Information System
Dashboards
Our interactive dashboards make it possible to filter, compare, and explore the data, making complex data understandable.
Maps
Maps allow you to visually explore & interact with various data layers across a landscape.
Interactive Storymaps
Storymaps and other digital storytelling tools help put the data into context and create meaning to inspire action.
Raw Data Portal
Get involved in Native land advocacy by accessing the raw data behind our dashboards and maps to do your own analysis.
Data Portals
Curated collections of narrative storymaps, dashboards, maps, and other content that presents the data wrapped in context or into actionable hubs for thematic planning.
More News and Information
The Impact Project Maps the Effects of Federal Changes on Local Communities
The Impact Project helps equip tribes with relevant information about the real-time effects of federal policy changes on local communities.
NLAP Presents at the 2025 America’s Grasslands Conference
The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) was invited to present at the 2025 America’s Grasslands Conference, June 24-26 in Kearney, Nebraska. The conference was the
Creating a Historic Loss Assessment, Part 3: Illegal settlements and loss of agricultural revenue
By calculating land dispossession, this report seeks to not only identify what has been taken from Native peoples but also how this theft became the original source of capital that built Colorado and the West.
Introducing Our New Storymap: Water is Life: Native Efforts to Restore Water Systems
The Native peoples of North America have been caretakers of their lands and natural resources long before colonial contact, and they are the ones who
