If You Text This Number You'll Get A Text Back Telling You What 'Native Land' You Are On

Find out whose "home and native land" you're really living on.
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Ever wondered whose land you are sitting on here in Canada? Well, as millennials would say, there's an app for that.

Or rather a phone number. 

In fact, you can now text your new pen pal and get an automatic response that will tell you exactly whose land you live on in just seconds.

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1 (907) 312- 5085 Number to text to receive land information

All you have to do is text 1 (907) 312- 5085 followed by the city and province you reside in.

You should then receive a messaged response indicating the Indigenous group whose land that you live on with a name and everything.

For example, when you type in "Toronto, Ontario" you should be met with an automatic answer that says "You are on Anishinabewaki Haudenosaunee, Mississauga, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation land."

The responses are based on a Canadian organization called Native Land, which also has an interactive map. 

A Facebook user also gave it a shot and wrote in three cities in the province of BC. She was met with different land information based on the different locations she referenced in the text.     

"Thought this was pretty cool, if you text 1 907 312 5085 you'll get a text back about who's land you're on," she captioned the post. 

  • Osobe Waberi was a Toronto-based Ethiopian-Somali Francophone writer at Narcity Canada. She graduated from the University of Toronto with a specialist degree in journalism and a news media diploma from Centennial College. Before Osobe’s gig as a national trending writer at Narcity, she worked at Toronto Star, The Canadian Press, VICE, and CBC.
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