{"id":17,"date":"2015-02-21T16:24:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T23:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devonsmith\/?p=17"},"modified":"2015-02-21T16:24:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T23:24:59","slug":"lesson-23-a-map-that-roared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devonsmith\/2015\/02\/21\/lesson-23-a-map-that-roared\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 2:3 – A Map That Roared"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/em><\/p>\n

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I have never really put much thought into the formation of maps, but this lesson has definitely sparked an interest for me. \u00a0After putting some serious thought into it, several questions came to mind that I had never thought to necessarily be important ones – how are maps created?; who has a say in their creation?; \u00a0how can maps change through time?; and what happens when there is a land dispute?<\/p>\n

When a map was brought out to Judge McEachern in court during period of 1982-1983, he said ‘We’ll call this the map that roared’. \u00a0After quoting this in his writing, Sparke immediately refers to this as a ‘paper tiger<\/a>‘. \u00a0Being unfamiliar with the term ‘paper tiger’, I looked it up and found the definition to be ‘something that seems threatening but is ineffectual and unable to withstand challenge’. \u00a0To me this was a very interesting thing to put some thought into. \u00a0The Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en people had produced a map in court in order to confirm that the land was in fact rightly theirs, but in reality was the map they produced ‘ineffectual’ as Sparke immediately alludes to? \u00a0This map had been created through the oral histories of the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en people, but was that oral history that created this map enough for Judge McEachern to justify re-creating the boundaries of general maps of the day – not in his opinion at that time.<\/p>\n

It is clear to us that this battle of oral history vs. today’s actualities is ongoing, but there has definitely been much positivity created regarding this topic in recent decades. \u00a0It is amazing to learn that the Supreme Court overturned<\/a> the initial decision made by Judge McEachern – and this shows that oral histories can and should make differences. \u00a0In my eyes, Judge McEachern, by saying ‘We’ll call this the map that roared’, implied that this map was to him in fact a paper tiger, and although it had the initial voice to raise and ‘roar’, did it have the follow through? The fact that this case was over turned is evidence that oral histories make a difference in the decision making of today.<\/p>\n

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Works Cited<\/p>\n

-Sparke, Mathew. \u201cA Map that Roared and an Original Atlas: Canada, Cartography, and the Narration of Nation.\u201d Annals of the Association of American Geographers<\/i> 88.3 (1998): 463- 495. Web. 04 April 2013.<\/p>\n

-http:\/\/www.thecourt.ca\/2007\/12\/10\/the-anniversary-of-delgamuukw-v-the-queen-two-legacies\/<\/p>\n

-http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paper_tiger<\/p>\n

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