Maps: Indigenous Maps and Mapping

An interactive online Atlas that invites visitors to explore the culture, history, traditional knowledge and land use of the Gwich’in through Gwich’in place names.

The Yukon Territory is in the northwest corner of Canada and borders on Alaska. There are eight aboriginal languages used here. Seven are from the Athapaskan family which spreads from central Alaska through northwestern Canada to Hudson Bay.

A Traditional Territory is an area of the Yukon that the people of a First Nation have traditionally used. A First Nation does not own its Traditional Territory, but the First Nation and its beneficiaries have a number of rights within their Traditional Territory, both on and off of Settlement Land.

An interactive digital map representing Indigenous territories, languages and treaties around the world with a focus on Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand.

Provides links to Indigenous group profiles.

See where 60 languages belonging to 12 language families are being used right now

various thematic mapping products on Aboriginal people, communities and initiatives undertaken by the Department. Information is being shown using our web-based interactive maps and/or cartographic static maps available in PDF format for viewing and printing purposes.

From the Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada map room.

Historical information and maps of Canadian treaties.

Shows Indian treaties that were negotiated between 1725 and 1930, including Treaty 11.

The process of dealing with Aboriginal title and rights through formal agreements began shortly after contact was established between Europeans and First Nations peoples and has evolved over more than 300 years.
In this section, view maps illustrating the Pre-1975 Treaties of Canada, that were negotiated between 1725 and 1923. These treaties cover most of Ontario, the Prairie Provinces, parts of Vancouver Island, Northwest Territories and Atlantic Canada.

View and explore current land resource uses on settled First Nations' traditional territories and Settlement Land, including: agriculture land applications and dispositions; land tenure information; mining claims and permits; and forestry permits.

Connects people to events, training and networking opportunities, and provides maps and mapping resources.

Resource list has extensive links to mapping information and Canadian websites.

Visual and interactive tool to represent the hundreds of northern organizations that are working to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada.

An interactive map launched by the Sixties Scoop Network in collaboration with University of Regina Professor Raven Sinclair.