Encroachment by Word, Axis, and Tree: Mapping Techniques from the Colonization of New England

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/457It is well established that mapping has been an important tool for the colonization of North America. Techniques such as removal of toponymy, alteration of a boundary line location, and use of a map grid, were all successfully used for advancing colonial interests in the printed regional and national maps of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This article compares these known techniques to those that were used in local, town level mapping in Connecticut during the same period. Whereas toponymic removal and replacement are found to remain central to cartographic encroachment at the local level, English colonists also successfully encroached on unpurchased Native lands through other uses of toponyms, as well as new devices such as the axis, tree-marking, and appropriation of Native mapping style. Native people actively contested these encroachments at the town and colony levels; these resistances successfully slowed but did not stop the mappings’ effects. The final effectiveness of each encroachment technique is found to depend on its ability to maintain a vague definition of territory and boundaries within an aura of precision and legality

Review of Boundaries of Home: Mapping for Local Empowerment

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/898.No abstract is available for this item

"They Would Not Take Me There" People, Places, and Stories from Champlain's Travels in Canada 1603-1616

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/96.No abstract is available for this item

Mapping Indigenous Depth of Place

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Review of Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/53.No abstract is available for this item

Review of They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places and Stories from Champlain's travels in Canada, 1603-1616

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/cp71-huffman/118.No abstract available for this item

Mapping Dreams/Dreaming Maps: Bridging Indigenous and Western Geographical Knowledge

Dreams and dreaming practices are integrated into knowledge-building processes in many Indigenous societies. Therefore, these practices may represent a source of geographical and cartographic information. This article addresses their incorporation into collaborative and cross-cultural research methods, especially in the framework of participatory mapping projects conducted with Indigenous communities or organizations. It is argued that dreams and dreaming practices enable the consideration of Indigenous territorial dimensions, such as the sacred and the spiritual, as well as the presence of non-human actors, that are more difficult to grasp through the social sciences or modern Western mapping methodologies. In addition, this approach invites geographers and cartographers to adopt a culturally de-centered concept of the notions of territory, mapping and participation that goes beyond the positivist premises of Western science and its research methodologies. This text draws from a Mapuche counter-mapping and participatory mapping experience that took place in southern Chile between 2004 and 2006 and in which the author took part as a cartographer