Whose land is it anyway? Free app focuses on Canada’s Indigenous history – CTV News

June 13, 2019

Instead of telling its users where they are, a new map-based app lets them know what where they are used to be.

Whose Land features interactive maps showing the proliferation of Indigenous communities in North America, past and present.

One map shows Indigenous communities’ traditional territories – the boundaries of their lands before contact with European settlers. Another features the areas covered by treaties with the Canadian and American governments. Another pinpoints locations of current First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities.

“It gives a good representation of how vast Indigenous nations were,” Mitch Holmes, one of the app’s developers, told CTV’s Your Morning on Thursday.

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