Terrastories “featured tool” page on Earth Defenders Toolkit translated to Khmer, Swahili, Thai, and Vietnamese 🗺️
The Earth Defenders Toolkit has been translated into Khmer, Swahili, Thai, and Vietnamese, in its entirety.
Help us create StellarStories: community storytelling about the cosmos
…we propose to leverage the Terrastories codebase to create a sister application of Terrastories for mapping oral histories about the cosmos, called StellarStories. We will adapt the Terrastories API, CMS, and front-end to work with an interactive canvas of the cosmos. Communities will be able to use the same features in Terrastories to control who has access to the content, decide on whether to host their stories online or offline, create curricula of stories for educational purposes, and design a public view of their StellarStories for a global audience to explore.
Wayana community in Suriname uses Terrastories as part of their mapping project
PARAMARIBO — According to the Wayana natives, their habitat, which has been demarcated by themselves, covers about 15 percent of Suriname. The Wayana area has a total area of 24,865 square kilometers and is located in the southeast of the country. That came out on Monday at the presentation of George Awankaroe who was closely involved in the demarcation process. This area is home to 862 indigenous people and has nine villages.
Six Nations Polytechnic Academy integrates Terrastories, a place-based storytelling and mapping tool, into the Indigenous-focused curriculum of a high school classroom
Crossposted from Digital Democracy blog Meet Chris Martin and Kali Anevich, two educators at Six Nations Polytechnic (SNP), a Haudenosaunee-governed Indigenous educational institute on Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation! Chris is a Water Project Lead at the SNP’s STEAM Academy for high school students, and Kali is a Geography and Environmental Science …
New Terrastories features released! And a sneak peek of our 2022 roadmap
As we enter the month of May (already!) and as we at the Terrastories stewards team prepare to embark on a major project to rebuild parts of the Terrastories core codebase, it feels like a good time to take inventory of some recent developments and exciting new features that we just released and shipped to our production servers!
Announcing support from the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums
We are very pleased to announce that we have received a $50,000 grant from The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) to support the mapping of Dakota traditional knowledge and oral histories by the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (SWO) of the Lake Traverse Reservation using the app Terrastories.
2021 Indigenous Mapping Workshop: Mapping your place-based oral histories with Terrastories
Featuring Christopher Martin from the STEAM Academy at Six Nations and Ohneganos Ohnegahdę:gyo. In this interactive workshop at the 2021 Indigenous Mapping Workshop which took place on November 2, 2021, workshop participants used Terrastories, a free and open-source application for mapping and locating place-based stories, to map our own knowledge and stories about our land. After …
(Mongabay) Empowering Indigenous youths with tradition and tech: Q&A with Dawn Martin-Hill
In addition to water woes, the Six Nations face ongoing challenges regarding their land rights. As one way to help protect their land and water, Martin-Hill introduced Terrastories, a place-based storytelling app that decolonizes geography, landscapes and waterscapes. Terrastories integrates data with the Indigenous vision for the land using ancestral land maps, water quality data and oral histories of the land.
Terrastories is participating in Hacktoberfest 2021!
Interested in contributing to an awesome free and open-source application for mapping oral histories? Terrastories is participating again in #Hacktoberfest this year!
Greater than Code podcast #246: Digital Democracy and Indigenous Storytelling with Rudo Kemper
On this episode, @rudokemper of @DigiDem talks about leading the indigenous-requested and indigenous-led open source project, Terrastories, which helps people capture and record oral history so that it is preserved and not lost over time.