 Hi, I'm Greg Smoke. I'm the director of the American West Center and an associate professor of history here at the University of Utah. And I'm here to talk a little bit about our project at the American West Center called Native Places, a decolonial atlas of Utah in the inner mountain west. Now, the Native Places project really was inspired by work I've done over the years, but also work that a lot of other folks have done. And it's really rooted in the understanding that mapping the world is a colonial process that has European nations and Euro-Americans colonized this continent. They drew new maps. They made the landscape legible in ways that made sense to them. And that almost always entailed erasing Native history and Native place names. The existence of hundreds of place names within a territory also is incontrovertible, proof that these were Native lands, that these were the lands of particular peoples, that they spend that time naming these places and knowing these places in such specific ways. It's a lot harder to deny these places as Native lands when you know that than it is if they're simply a line drawn on a map with one tribe's name on one side and another tribe's name on the other. So the process of renaming is also a process of erasure and that's what we hope that this project addresses. We think of this as a means of also heritage preservation. We hope that tribes will be able to use it as a tool for language instruction in K-12 schools. And also I hope it can be useful as a tool for people who want to craft land acknowledgement statements. I mean that's sort of something that's very much in the forefront in recognition today. Many institutions, including the University of Utah, have written land acknowledgement statements. We have to go beyond just acknowledging that we operate, that we are sitting on Native lands. I think we need to do much more to benefit Native peoples. And by creating a heritage preservation tool, hopefully that's something we can give back to tribes as an institution of higher learning that goes beyond a simple land acknowledgement statement.