Get and use your API key

Sign up and get an API key to use Native Land Digital's API responsibly.

As of late 2024, Native Land Digital started requiring all requests to use an API key. This is to help us steward this data more responsibly and learn more about who is using the data we provide. The data is still free, you just need to sign up to get a key.

Sign up at https://native-land.ca/auth/signup.

Once you sign up, press the API tab. There will be a checkbox you need to check and agree to in order to get an API key.

This is important! Part of using our dataset responsibly means understanding the data behind this isn't just anonymous or random. This dataset represents thousands of different nations, knowledge, and values. Please read our Data Sovereignty Treaty carefully before you go ahead with the API.

Once you're agreed, the page will refresh and you will be able to see your API key.

Copy your API key and include it in your requests as an additional parameter called key. For example,

https://native-land.ca/api/index.php?maps=languages&position=42.553080,-86.473389

Will now become:

https://native-land.ca/api/index.php?maps=languages&position=42.553080,-86.473389&key=your_api_key

For post requests, send the key as an additional field, called key.