This weekend, I showed my mom the native land website just for our own amusement. We ended up spending almost 2 hours just exploring and her trying to connect the dots from her grandparents. “Oh so that’s why they called our neighbors ‘Tlapaneco'”. (Even though Me’phaa is how they referred themselves). It was fun just exploring and theorizing, especially seeing her go “OH I think your godmother’s family speaks that language” or “this is where our neighbor is from”. When we got to the where my mother was born, she noticed how the indigenous people there were isolated or just wasn’t near the Mexicah (Triple Alliance) and “joked” by saying, “this is why that place is so under developed, since before the Spaniards they refused to be part of anything.” While that did made me want to truly research the land my mother was born in, my times was taken up by a trip to Van Cortlandt, where I took footage for my research on my green space.