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:
Map Biographies in Google Earth
Elders guiding Direct-to-Digital mapping in Google Earth
digital mapping of indigenous land use & occupancy in Kamchatka, Russia
https://sites.google.com/site/kamchatkamapping/karty---maps
Coast Salish Land Use & Occupancy on Saltspring Island
Anth 460 project by Britney Oswell
Significant Places mapping projects in Google Earth
Grad student Amy Becker and Danny Elliott working on Stz’uminus Storied Places
Stz’uminus Stories Places Project (https://goo.gl/ppaZ3a)
UVic Anth MA Student
Amy Becker &
Stz’uminus Youth
Coordinator
Shirley Louie
Ethnographic Mapping in the Archives: Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand
Indigenous Place Names
detail of ‘Select First Nations Place Names’ map courtesy of HTG (2014)
Re-storying the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve
SENĆOŦEN Place Names by Dave Elliott, WSÁNEĆ
Anth 460 map by James Rogers
Addressing privacy, sharing sensitively
Protective sensitive locations through imprecise mapping
https://sites.google.com/view/htgcasestudy/ancestral-site-conflicts
Keeping data off-line: KML files in Google Earth Pro
Keeping data obscure: network links in Google Earth Pro
Keeping data obscure: network links in Google Earth Pro
Keeping detailed Use and Occupancy data private
Keeping detailed Use and Occupancy data private
Stz’uminus elders sharing their stories of the cultural landscape
Stz’uminus Stories Places Project (YouTube video embeds)
Stz’uminus Stories Places Project - sharing settings
Other UVic Projects: Innovations in Ethnographic Mapping
http://ethnographicmapping.uvic.ca/cartographiclegacies
code available on GitHub https://github.com/Hoverbear/thom-viewer
Coast Salish Cultural Landscapes Street View Gallery
http://www.google.com/maps/streetview/#coast-salish-cultural-landscapes
Coast Salish Cultural Landscapes Street View Gallery
http://www.google.com/maps/streetview/#coast-salish-cultural-landscapes
Analysis of contemporary land use challenges within indigenous territories
https://sites.google.com/view/htgcasestudy
Google Earth Engine analysis of urban/agricultural change
More MyMaps illustrating indigenous territorial challenges!
Custom Icons from UVic’s Ethnographic Mapping Lab!�http://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/ethnographicmapping/resources/indigenous-mapping-icons/
http://ethnographicmapping.uvic.ca