Interactive Map Reveals Which Indigenous Lands You’re Living On
Do you know what native land you’re on?
Long before Florida was occupied by the arrival of European settlers, proclaimed to have been discovered by Ponce de Leon, and controlled under Spain and Great Britain’s colonial rule — the indigenous people of Florida inhabited the land more than 12,000 years earlier.
Before the indigenous people of Florida were subject to colonialism, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and forced removal, an estimated 350,000 people belonging to several tribes populated and cared for the land. However, depicting Western propaganda and mapmaking demonstrating property ownership and reinforcing power structures that erase Indigenous people from their traditional lands, Indigenous people are not relics of the past. In fact, there is still a significant number of people belonging to Florida’s Native American tribes and many who identify as Indigenous. It is imperative that we decolonize maps to acknowledge the history of the land we occupy.
