Cultural mapmaking has long been present in Lakota awareness of the world; using place, space, and time to tell our stories. An organizing committee of tribal members and several organizational partners recently completed the first three years in a community-based design process to lay the groundwork for an online oral history project connecting shared stories to place. The committee has prioritized data sovereignty, collective ownership, unique metadata, and the embracing of cultural protocols in its early work, and the early pilot projects show promise for the future of the program.