Bringing Indigenous cartographies to shape
municipal land use plans
Brian Thom, Anthropology, University of Victoria
Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives
2019 Regional Meetings, McGill University
03 May 2019
Link to these slides:
http://bit.ly/2vwJrC1
Place Names & Storied Places Mapping
Archaeological Site Mapping
non-Western spatial expressions
Remote Sensing (Satellite) Mapping
Land Use
Plan
Mapping
Educational Mapping
Ethno-historic Record Mapping
Territory & Land Tenure Mapping
Land Use and Occupancy Mapping
Indigenous Mapping in
Practice
Life
Projects
Property & and Tenure
Protected Areas
Local Livelihoods & Food
Politics of
Resource Extraction
Cultural Heritage
Inter- legalities
Place Names & Storied Places Mapping
Archaeological Site Mapping
non-Western spatial expressions
Remote Sensing (Satellite) Mapping
Land Use
Plan
Mapping
Educational Mapping
Ethno-historic Record Mapping
Territory & Land Tenure Mapping
Land Use and Occupancy Mapping
Indigenous Mapping in
Practice
Life
Projects
Property & and Tenure
Protected Areas
Local Livelihoods & Food
Politics of
Resource Extraction
Cultural Heritage
Inter- legalities
ȾEL¸IȽĆ / c̓əl̓íɫč -- Cordova Bay in Coast Salish territories -- is 3730 km from Montréal
Location of Cordova Bay community and ancient village of ȾEL¸IȽĆ / c̓əl̓íɫč
Cordova Bay
Straits Salish Territories in
SENĆOŦEN Place Names by Dave Elliott, WSÁNEĆ
(Elliott & Poth 1990)
Lekwungen place names by Sophie Michael, Ned Williams, Jimmy Fraser, Edward Joe, Martha Guerin. (Duff 1969)
Mapping by James Rogers and Paige Erickson-McGee, UVic Ethnographic Mapping Lab
The District of Saanich is doing a new Land Use Plan for Cordova Bay -- due to be finished in 2019
S’YEWE History Pole and story of Transformed Ancestors at Cordova Bay (pole at UVic)
9 burials removed at McMorran’s between 1946 - 1960
Recent archaeological testing and developments at DdRu-165 (Cordova Bay Plaza) where 9 burials had been removed 1946-60
Recorded Cordova Bay Archaeological Sites Unrecorded sites in RBCM & UVic Archives
Recorded Cordova Bay Archaeological Sites BC Archaeology Branch site “potential” model
Cordova Bay Park (DdRu-13) burial site, the only map on file, March 1960
Cordova Bay Fish Trap (at mouth of Galey Brook)
31 May 1791 Spanish encounter in Cordova Bay (Galiano and Valdés voyage)
Pemberton’s 1852 Water Supplies map, showing trails with detail of Cordova Bay area
Pemberton’s 1852 Water Supplies map, showing trails with detail of Cordova Bay area
Tsartlip
Tseycum
Tsawout
Songhees
Cordova Bay
Pemberton’s 1852 Map of Haro Strait and Cordova Bay (with detail, colour digitally exaggerated)
“Indian Trails”
site of proposed steam saw mill
Tracing “Indian Trails” and creeks from Pemberton’s 1852 Cordova Bay Map
Indigenizing Municipal Land Use Planning:
Cordova Bay Local Area Plan
Needs for Future Research and Partnership?
Remote Sensing Lhuq’us (red laver): seaweed, bitumen, and Coast Salish, knowledge, care and practice
In the face of increased marine tanker traffic, climate change, and other forces on their territories, Indigenous communities in the Salish Sea are working to document culturally significant species and monitor the effects of these developments on them.
Using drone flights and satellite imagery to automate the mapping of these species in Google Earth Engine, our project works to reinvigorate and recirculate Indigenous knowledges about culturally significant species and places, and build local technical expertise for long-term environmental monitoring.
Rising tide at the ȾEL¸IȽĆ / c̓əl̓íɫč lagoon-- the original Cordova Bay village
How to local governments use planning jurisdictions to recognize and prioritize Indigenous values in their zoning & decision-making?
What are the visions for the future that includes Indigenous peoples (physical presence, land title, co-jurisdictions, economic development)?
How can local governments implement and respect 1852 South Saanich Treaty rights today?
Who carries the ancestral name W̱EȾÁM¸ELTW̱ today?
Where is the Transformer stone NOU¸NEĆ thrown by SMOQEĆ ?
What is the spatial extent & chronology of archaeological sites? Repatriation?
What land use and occupancy can be shared with the public? Data sovereignty?