Library Guides: Map Collection: Tribal lands maps

Access in the Map Collection

Tribal Nations Maps
Dozens of classroom maps broadly showing historic lands of tribal nations, many with their ancestral names
Coming home to Indigenous place names in Canada
A 2017 map intended to deepen understanding of place names and create respect for Indigenous homelands and sovereignties
Waterlines map
Shows mid-19th century Seattle, just before the arrival of non-Native settlers, with place names in Southern Lushootseed language
Turtle Island decolonized: Indigenous names of major cities and historical sites
Map made through collaboration between the Decolonial Atlas collective and hundreds of Indigenous elders and language-keepers.

Native Land Digital
Explore territories on this platform where Indigenous communities can represent themselves and their histories on their own terms
Land Grab Universities
Features maps designed by 2025 MacArthur Fellow Margaret Wickens Pearce (Citizen Potawatomi Nation)