Terrastories Support Materials
  • Introduction
  • OVERVIEW
    • About Terrastories
      • How Terrastories is being used
    • FAQs
    • Getting started
    • Terrastories demo
  • USING TERRASTORIES
    • Exploring the Terrastories main interface
    • Using the Terrastories member dashboard
      • Exploring and creating stories, speakers, and places
      • Customizing your community theme
      • Setting up users and roles
      • Setting up an Explore Terrastories view for your community
      • Modifying map settings
      • Importing data
  • EXPLORE TERRASTORIES
    • What is Explore Terrastories?
    • Exploring the Explore Terrastories interface
    • Setting up Explore Terrastories for your community
  • Operating Terrastories Offline
    • Operating an offline Terrastories "Field Kit"
    • Preparing offline map packages
  • SETTING UP A TERRASTORIES SERVER
    • Hosting environments
      • 🌐 Hosting Terrastories online
      • 🛖 Hosting Terrastories offline as a "Field Kit"
        • Advanced Setup
      • 🍫 Hosting Terrastories on Kakawa (Earth Defenders Toolkit Offline)
    • Navigating the Super Admin dashboard
    • Setting up an Explore Terrastories server
  • MISCELLANEOUS
    • Support
    • Troubleshooting
      • Offline map tiles are not showing up
      • Resetting passwords (using the Rails console)
      • Saving and printing Terrastories reference materials
    • Translating Terrastories
    • Additional resources and references
    • For developers
  • Terrastories website
  • our.terrastories.app
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  1. OVERVIEW
  2. About Terrastories

How Terrastories is being used

A selection of interesting use cases by communities across the globe.

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Mapping Afro-descendant ancestral oral histories in Suriname

The Matawai Maroons, a community of descendants of formerly enslaved Africans who fought for their right to exist in the rainforest over three centuries ago, are mapping their ancestral homelands along the Saramacca River in Suriname and using Terrastories to overlay place-based oral histories with their maps. .

Traditional knowledge of water in Canada

Indigenous Wayana lands in Suriname

Ogiek ancestral lands along Mount Elgon in Kenya

The Ogiek of Mount Elgon are using Terrastories to map stories about sacred caves, place names, and more.

Dakota storytelling in the United States

The Dakota community of Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate is using Terrastories to map sacred stoires of the landscape.

The Haudenosaunee people at Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada are using Terrastories to map traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous stories of the Grand River along with scientific data about water quality. .

The Wayana Indigenous community in Suriname is using Terrastories to map oral narrations from elders about special places and the Wayana boundary agreements with neighboring communities. .

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