Restorative Remapping Project

You can find the whole atlas at mohawkatlas.org. It's this same concept that inspires Restorative Remapping Project.

“It’s a different way of approaching language revitalization in our community,” says Ransom.

“We can use placenames and this project to teach about history, our connection to the land and the surrounding environment.”

A Digital Map to Revitalize Indigenous Placenames Indigenous placenames contain information and clues that help us understand how a place was historically and culturally used, what the land itself used to look like, and track environmental changes in flora, fauna and topography over generations.

Another win in the global effort to decolonize and deconstruct the myth of Anglo-European domination over the land.

Celebrating K’gari: why the renaming of Fraser Island is about so much more than a name Fraser Island was renamed to the original Butchulla name, K'gari. Returning to original place names is a significant step in First Nations people maintaining cultural identity in Australia.