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Historic Landscape Discovery Workshop

Blackfeet Tribal Historic Preservation Office

Indigenous Mapping at UVic Ethnographic Mapping Lab

Dr. Brian Thom, Dept of Anthropology, University of Victoria

Helena Montana, 19 September 2017

Link to this presentation:

https://goo.gl/bDVLLd

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Map Biographies in Google Earth

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Elders guiding Direct-to-Digital mapping in Google Earth

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digital mapping of indigenous land use & occupancy in Kamchatka, Russia

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https://sites.google.com/site/kamchatkamapping/karty---maps

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Coast Salish Land Use & Occupancy on Saltspring Island

Anth 460 project by Britney Oswell

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Significant Places mapping projects in Google Earth

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Grad student Amy Becker and Danny Elliott working on Stz’uminus Storied Places

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Stz’uminus Stories Places Project (https://goo.gl/ppaZ3a)

UVic Anth MA Student

Amy Becker &

Stz’uminus Youth

Coordinator

Shirley Louie

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Ethnographic Mapping in the Archives: Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand

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Indigenous Place Names

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detail of ‘Select First Nations Place Names’ map courtesy of HTG (2014)

Re-storying the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve

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SENĆOŦEN Place Names by Dave Elliott, WSÁNEĆ

Anth 460 map by James Rogers

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Addressing privacy, sharing sensitively

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Protective sensitive locations through imprecise mapping

https://sites.google.com/view/htgcasestudy/ancestral-site-conflicts

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Keeping data off-line: KML files in Google Earth Pro

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Keeping data obscure: network links in Google Earth Pro

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Keeping data obscure: network links in Google Earth Pro

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Keeping detailed Use and Occupancy data private

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Keeping detailed Use and Occupancy data private

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Stz’uminus elders sharing their stories of the cultural landscape

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Stz’uminus Stories Places Project (YouTube video embeds)

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Stz’uminus Stories Places Project - sharing settings

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Other UVic Projects: Innovations in Ethnographic Mapping

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http://ethnographicmapping.uvic.ca/cartographiclegacies

code available on GitHub https://github.com/Hoverbear/thom-viewer

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Coast Salish Cultural Landscapes Street View Gallery

http://www.google.com/maps/streetview/#coast-salish-cultural-landscapes

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Coast Salish Cultural Landscapes Street View Gallery

http://www.google.com/maps/streetview/#coast-salish-cultural-landscapes

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Analysis of contemporary land use challenges within indigenous territories

https://sites.google.com/view/htgcasestudy

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Google Earth Engine analysis of urban/agricultural change

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More MyMaps illustrating indigenous territorial challenges!

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Custom Icons from UVic’s Ethnographic Mapping Lab!�http://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/ethnographicmapping/resources/indigenous-mapping-icons/

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http://ethnographicmapping.uvic.ca