The Indigenous Knowledge App
Built by and for Indigenous land users and communities
Join 45,000+ Inuit, First Nations, and Métis using SIKU for free
Whether you’re out harvesting for subsistence, leading a Guardians program, or supporting Indigenous-led research, SIKU gives you the tools to do it your way.
Track, Harvest & Observe
Make posts about wildlife, ice, weather, or record elders’ interviews, with photos and video — all you need is your phone. Use SIKU for personal harvest tracking or join a project to put your knowledge to work.
Use Offline
Make Posts
Record Trips & Memories
See My Activity
Pin & Sort Favourites
Track your harvest and observation activities and get totals for each day, week, month or year, see your data as maps and summaries, and more.
Travel and Safety
Check up-to-date weather, marine, and ice conditions before heading out on the land. Use SIKU offline as a GPS to track routes, waypoints, and see previous trips.
Land & Marine Map
Satellite Imagery
Radar Imagery
Ice & Hazard Map
Weather Services
Use SIKU like a GPS, follow your previous tracks, learn about hazards from others, access safety information and more. All in one place for your trip planning.
Use Your Language
Use your language and dialect for Indigenous indicators and place names on the map. SIKU can easily add your dialect and environmental terminology to profiles, and the full app is translated into Inuktitut, Cree, Kalaallisut, English and French to date.
Indigenous Place Names & Lands
Set My Dialect
My Wildlife Terms
My Ice & Snow Terms
My Weather Terms
siku: the Inukitut word for sea ice.
Connect
Follow your region’s news feed, engage with other SIKU users, and join projects like Ice Watch and Goose Watch.
Lead a Project
Create a SIKU Project and invite your team to contribute trips and posts. Use the Post Manager and Dashboard to explore data, simplify reporting, track payments, and show impact. Used by Guardians programs, decision makers, and researchers.
Explore all Tools
Preview Wildlife, Ice & Snow, Weather, and Geology Profiles. Contact us to learn about all the tools SIKU has to offer, from trip posts to Map Stories, Human Impacts, research tools like CTD casts and much more.
“SIKU just upped their game folks. This is by far the best mapping system you can use. It has updated satellite images and can be used offline. Sign up for this free app and make use of it.”
— Tyrone Raddi, Tuktoyaktuk
Sovereignty by Design
Built in from the start
The database, privacy settings, and tools are designed around sovereignty.
You own your data
The Arctic Eider Society develops and runs SIKU — you own and control your data, not us.
For self-determination
Tools that support Indigenous-led research, monitoring, and knowledge transfer.
For Indigenous knowledge
Indigenous priorities, language, and classification systems. Indigenized maps that go beyond decolonial design.
See SIKU in Action
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Arctic BIOSCAN
Qikiqtait
The Arctic Bears Project
Nunavik Parks Wildlife Monitoring
SmartICE Arviat
BenthArctic
Sapujiyiit Guardians Project
Guardians of Akuliaqattaq
Mushkegowuk Knowledge Keepers
Aqviqtuuq Bird Watch
Issatik Guardians
Environmental Technology Program
A Program of the Arctic Eider Society
SIKU is a program of the Arctic Eider Society, a registered Indigenous Canadian charity based in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut.
We are land users and project managers who use SIKU every day.
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