Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Our home on native land

Mapping​
territories, languages, and treaties respectfully

https://native-land.ca/#


​Victor's
 project highlights the many overlapping identities and cultures that have co-existed in North America for thousands of years. He admits that while there is always room for tweaking and improvement, this resource gives a new perspective on the role of mapping and how we draw boundaries.

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Native-Land.ca started in early 2015, during a time of a lot of resource development projects in British Columbia.
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The map has gotten a reasonable amount of attention over the years, and it typically spikes in popularity around Thanksgiving, "Columbus Day", and National Aboriginal Day.
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There are over 630 different First Nations in Canada (and many more globally)
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 Western maps of Indigenous nations are very often inherently colonial, in that they delegate power according to imposed borders that don't really exist in many nations throughout history. 
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