Poetry is language condensed; Blackfoot cartography is landscape distilled. Cartographic Poetry is the first book-length, multidisciplinary study of five maps drawn in 1801 and 1802 by several Blackfoot and Gros Ventre people for the Hudsons Bay Company. Representing some of the oldest documents created by Indigenous people on the North American prairies and foothills, these maps preserve invaluable evidence about places on the landscape, and about historic Blackfoot views of their territories. The maps were intended as navigational tools, but the landforms and locations on the maps hold significance for the Blackfoot well beyond wayfinding, and have for many centuries. Exploring their content and utility from historical, linguistic, and archaeological perspectives, Ted Binnema, Franēois Lanoė, and Heinz W. Pyszczyk analyze the maps, their place names and features, and the tours and trips they may have supported, along with providing present-day photographs of many of the maps landforms. A final section of the book outlines how Indigenous maps contributed significantly to Western geographical knowledge and maps of North America from the 1500s onward. Cartographic Poetry will appeal to anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, historians, cartographers, and to all readers interested in how Indigenous peoples perceived and navigated their territories in this early period of colonial encounter. With a Foreword by Jerry Potts Jr. and an Afterword by Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn.
Recenzijas
"Cartographic Poetry is the first detailed study of these five Indigenous maps as ethnohistoric documents. The authors describe the cartographic conventions of the mapmakers and provide their identifications of the named places. Given the recent interest in the study of toponyms, this book will be a valuable resource to researchers, members of First Nations communities, and the public. Gerald Oetelaar, Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary "Cartographic Poetry is a major contribution. It illustrates Indigenous Knowledge of the northern Great Plains as expressed through maps. Indigenous peoples shared their deep understanding of their land and landscape by drawing maps of their world that showed both physical and metaphysical realms." Rosalyn LaPier, author of Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet
Papildus informācija
This first book-length study of five maps drawn by Blackfoot and Gros Ventre cartographers in 1801 and 1802 explores the maps cartographic conventions, utility, and beauty.
Foreword
A Note on Indigenous Names
A Note on Orthography
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Learning from Early Nineteenth-Century Blackfoot Maps
2. The Ac ko mok ki Map of 1801
The Revised Ac ko mok ki Map of 1801
3. Three Indigenous Maps Drawn in 1802
Ac ko mok kis Map of 1802
Ak ko wee aks Map of 1802
The 1802 Map by an Unidentified Cartographer(s)
4. The Ki oo cus Map of 1802
5. Tours and Trips on the Ac ko mok ki and Ki oo cus Maps
The War Track of 1801
Ac ko mok kis Tour of the Old North Trail
Ki oo cuss Tours of the Northwestern Plains
6. Exploring the Different Tribes of Ac ko mok kis Map and the Gros
Ventre map
Ac ko mok kis Different Tribes
The Gros Ventres Different Tribes
7. Contributions of Indigenous Cartography to Western Cartography
Bibliography
Afterword
Ted Binnema is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is the author of The Vancouver Island Treaties and the Evolving Principles of Indigenous Title, Enlightened Zeal: The Hudsons Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 16701870, and Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains. He co-edited with Gerhard Ens three volumes of The Hudsons Bay Company Edmonton House Journals, published by the Historical Society of Alberta. He has also published scholarly articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics. His fascination with and research into Blackfoot and Gros Ventre maps dates to the 1990s. Franēois Lanoė is Assistant Research Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Research Associate at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. He works on the pre-contact archaeology of Indigenous peoples of northwestern North America, from early settlement during the last Ice Age, to interactions with Euro-American colonial powers. He has worked with tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy since 2013, leading to several publications on Blackfoot archaeology, ancient DNA, and oral history. Heinz W. Pyszczyk, retired staff archaeologist with the Government of Alberta, is an adjunct professor at the University of Lethbridge. His primary research interest is Canadian fur trade archaeology and ethnohistory. His most recent publications include: The Last Fort Standing. Fort Vermilion and the Peace River Fur Trade, 1798-1830 and Fifty years of fur trade archaeology in northern Alberta forests: what have we accomplished? He has also published numerous articles in a wide range of topics in Canadian archaeology. As Parkland Archaeologist for the Government of Alberta, he first became interested in the Ki oo cus map in 2010 as it covered parts of his regional mandate.
