Site: https://maps.fpcc.ca/
Information: https://fpcc.ca/stories/first-peoples-map/
The discussion on “Is technology culturally neutral?” brought up interesting dialogue on languages, especially those dominant in cyberspace. From that interaction, I found this resource which is a living map of the First Peoples’ languages in BC. Not only does it map the areas visually, but it also provides audio samples of the pronunciation of greetings, names, and more. Statistics about the communities and languages are included, such as the population and the number of fluent speakers. Along with languages, arts and cultural heritage points of interests are overlayed on the interactive map, providing a resource to learn more place-based information about First Peoples’ history in your community in BC.
Timothy! This is incredible, I am sad I did not know about this sooner. I live in Northern B.C., if you click on the “Tse’khene” section of the map you’ll see a long skinny body of water – this is the Williston Reservoir and I am on the northwest tip of it – about an hour south of Kwadacha Nation. Tsay Keh Dene comes up in Prince George (our band office) so it does not show it on this map. The first thing I am doing tomorrow is asking an elder if our Sekani is the same as McLeod Lake Sekani (Tse’khene) language. We have a digitized language resource as well, it is not as user-friendly. Thank you for sharing 🙂