{"id":45,"date":"2015-07-20T11:56:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T18:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ariannerobyn\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2015-07-20T11:56:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T18:56:48","slug":"blog-2-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ariannerobyn\/blog-2-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 2.6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Judge McEachern\u2019s comment \u201cWe\u2019ll call it the map that roared\u201d<\/h1>\n
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Question # 3: In order to address this question you will need to refer to Sparke\u2019s article, \u201cA Map that Roared and an Original Atlas: Canada, Cartography, and the Narration of Nation.\u201d You can easily find this article online. Read the section titled: \u201cContrapuntal Cartographies\u201d (468 \u2013 470). Write a blog that explains Sparke\u2019s analysis of what Judge McEachern might have meant by this statement: \u201cWe\u2019ll call this the map that roared.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Judge McEachern potentially meant by the former statement, could have been the allusion towards being demeaning to\u00a0the cartographic efforts by the\u00a0Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en and the Gitxsan. Sparke mentions in his analysis that\u00a0McEachern\u2019s comment may have been a reference to Peter Sellers\u2019s 1959 film, \u201cThe Mouse That Roared\u201d\u2026which is a clever association by Sparke, and an observation of potential truth to the words that McEachern shared in the Delgamuukw v. the Queen trials. Perhaps Judge McEachern\u2019s words were simply a Freudian slip, a mere mixture of words in an attempt to make a joke in court, about his\u00a0opinion of the maps which clearly outlined the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en and Gitxsan historical territory. Perhaps the cartographic maps did not supply\u00a0enough \u201caccroutrements of Canadian colonialism on Native land\u201d (Sparke, 468), and were not convincing enough maps to prove historical presence. Or, perhaps, McEachern did really intentionally mean to refer to the maps as \u201cthe map that roared\u201d (468). A pretty crude comment\u00a0if I do say so myself, that is, if the association that McEachern made from the map to the film was true.<\/p>\n

For those of you who have not read of the novel (by Leonard Wibberley) , or seen the film, \u201cThe Mouse that roared\u201d, it is pretty much a satirical novel-turned-film that takes place during the cold war, when an attack in New York city is declared and brought upon by a small, impoverished, fictional country in Europe. Amazon<\/a> describe the film as being \u201c\u2026a poignant tale of political morality, and a hilarious, ultimately triumphant portrait of international relations from the perspective of the little guy\u201d. The main goal of the fictional country was to lose the war, so they could receive American foreign aid to replenish their country\u2019s impoverished state.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Looks like a film, full of satire! Funny film, worth the watch.<\/p>\n

The film sounds all too satirical, and lines-up with so many commonalities in Canadian politics. Interestingly enough, couldn\u2019t we say that the film is a metaphor for the Delgamuukw trials? Maybe Judge McEachern would think so. I mean, think about it, we got the \u201clittle guy\u201d (the Gitxkan and the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en), who is impoverished and declares war on the big guy (Canadian Government), who\u2019s goal is to receive financial victory from their superiors (Aboriginal Title and land declaration). Perhaps I am making subjective associations as I see them, but the plots in the Delgamuukw trials, and \u201cThe Mouse That Roared\u201d, possess so many similarities.\u00a0I think McEachern might have been onto something here. Words mean many things, and in his brief statement, it seems all too obvious to not say that he wasn\u2019t referring the maps to the film.<\/p>\n

I find \u201cthe map that roared\u201d, to be quite insulting, actually. Why? Well, if we can associate McEachern\u2019s comment about the maps to the film, the \u201clittle guy\u201d, who is represented by the Gitxkan and the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en, are seen as people with unrealistic ideals and are portrayed as being foolish. That being said, the cartographic maps are representations of the Gitxkan and the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en people. In court,\u00a0McEachern\u00a0betrayed recognition of\u00a0the Gitxkan and the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en\u2019s efforts to demonstrate their historical presence on their traditional land, and dismissed them\u00a0with \u201ccolonialist claims about the extinguishment of aboriginal rights<\/a>\u201d (470). Jeez! Way to push aside some cool evidence and hard work with outdated, discriminating, colonialist notions. The Gitxkan and the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en created these maps in \u201cattempts to outline their sovereignty in a way Canadian court might understand\u201d (468). Perhaps McEachern did not understand, and called them foolish and unrealistic by referencing their hard work to the satires of\u00a0\u201cThe Mouse that Roared\u201d.<\/p>\n

Overall, I believe McEachern was being unrealistic with the Gitxkan and the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Nations, and did not give them a chance to prove their Aboriginal Title and sovereignty. Doesn\u2019t matter what McEachern\u2019s meant by his comment anyways because\u00a0The Supreme court ended up overturning his\u00a0judgement, and gave possibility for more trials to the Gitxkan and the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en, to prove sovereignty over their land. Ha, how ironic. I wonder what McEachern\u2019s would say if anyone called him the Grinch That Stole Christmas?<\/p>\n

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Works Cited<\/p>\n

1) Amazon.\u00a0The Mouse That Roared: A Novel. <\/em>Leonard Wibberley. Beach Reads. 10 Jan 2003. Web. 20 June 2015. <http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/The-Mouse-That-Roared-Novel\/dp\/1568582498><\/p>\n

2) First Nations Studies Program. Bill C-31<\/em>. Indigenous Foundations. UBC. 2009. Web. 20 June 2015. http:\/\/indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca\/home\/government-policy\/the-indian-act\/bill-c-31.html<\/p>\n

3) Sparke, Mathew. \u201cA Map that Roared and an Original Atlas: Canada, Cartography, and the Narration of Nation.\u201d\u00a0Annals of the Association of American Geographers<\/i>\u00a088.3 (1998): 463- 495. Web. 20 June 2015.)\u00a0<http:\/\/www.uky.edu\/~tmute2\/geography_methods\/readingPDFs\/sparke-narration.pdf><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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