Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs and Ecotrust Canada
Abstract
Aboriginal peoples in Canada have been mapping aspects of
their cultures for more than a generation. Indians, Inuit, Métis,
non-status Indians and others have called their maps by
different names at various times and places: land use and
occupancy; land occupancy and use; traditional use; traditional land use
and occupancy; current use; cultural sensitive areas; and so on. I use “land
use and occupancy mapping” in a generic sense to include all the above.
The term refers to the collection of interview data about traditional use
of resources and occupancy of lands by First Nation persons, and the
presentation of those data in map form. Think of it as the geography of
oral tradition, or as the mapping of cultural and resource geography. (PDF contains 81 pages.
