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At the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, the primary task of the GIS program is to create and maintain data layers within the Tribe's aboriginal territory. This area spans more than 5 million acres in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. The Coeur d'Alene Tribe has also developed a data layer of place names in the Coeur d'Alene language for sites within this territory, which has evolved into the Native Names Project.
One of the most important goals of this project is preserving the pronunciations of the places, and their individual stories. On many reservations across the United States, it is the unfortunate truth that only a handful of the residents know the native geographic names. The Native Names Project was created to collect these place names before they disappear forever.
The project has evolved over time, and it now has several goals. The first is to use GIS to preserve the culture and language associated with native geography; this is done by connecting native place names on a map to a Web site containing cultural information about those locations. [...]
Read more: http://nr.geospatial-solutions.com/gssnr/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=578324&pageID=1&sk&date
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