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MOD #1 POST #1: First Peoples’ Map of BC

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.

 

M1, P3: Decolonizing Collections: A Map-based Interface

After reading the Marker’s (2006) paper this week, I was thinking about how a map interface might respect Indigenous ties to place more than a plain, old Western index. After a few searches, I came across this paper by a prof at the University of Alberta:

Shiri, A., Borys, C., & Huang, C. (2019). Mapping Canada’s Indigenous Digital Collections. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes Du congrès Annuel De l’ACSI. https://doi.org/10.29173/cais1060

The objective of this paper is to report on a comprehensive study to examine, identify, and map Canada’s Indigenous digital collections available on the web in order to provide a metadata-rich, map-based interface that supports unified, organized, and systematic access to the Indigenous digital collections.

Below is a prototype of the mapping interface Shiri et al. (2019, p.7) propose to develop:

 

Marker, M. (2006). After the Makah whale hunt: Indigenous knowledge and limits to multicultural discourse. Urban Education, 41(5), 482-505.

Shiri, A., Borys, C., & Huang, C. (2019). Mapping Canada’s Indigenous Digital Collections. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes Du congrès Annuel De l’ACSI. https://doi.org/10.29173/cais1060