Contact Native Land Support

I was very excited to try this app as it has been difficult getting good information on the tribes indigenous to my area (western Pennsylvania). Unfortunately this app got stuck loading the map and never was able to show me any data, despite reinstalling, rebooting, etc. (I’m on an iPhone X, iOS 13.7.) I couldn’t find any contact info on the app support page.

This seems like it would be a very interesting educational and conversational tool, however it is currently very poorly optimized and as such it is very difficult to use. I thought this might be slightly more reliable than the website which has many of the same issues. I was mistaken. I have an iPhone 12 Pro, which is at the time of writing this the most capable iPhone around. The app takes minutes (4+) to partially load and reference data for a simple location search, let alone start up a second or try to delve into more information about the location’s indigenous groups.

I love learning about different people and different cultures and I also love studying the history of people and who they were and their relationships with their neighbors. This helps understand how cultures grow and develop. I will give this app the benefit of the doubt because it’s still growing but I would love for it to be a true tool for information about the people who lived in the Americas and around the world. As of right now it’s just a map which is interesting but very limiting in what there is to learn and understand. For instance, I would love to see a map where it shows which languages are related or the different language families each language is a part of and specifically which cultures speak these languages. This would give so much information on just how the cultural and political systems of various people are connected. Another idea I would like to see is a time line of the various ancient cultures. For instance, the Mogollon culture of the southwest vanished about 600 years ago. After that their rivals the Dine and Hopi can be found in many of the ancient Mogollon regions. However, the Mogollon people didn’t disappear, just their culture did. The ancestors of the Mogollon culture still live there, just in a new tribes and new cultures. I would love to have that type of information available.