{"id":49,"date":"2019-02-20T00:55:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T07:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ganssandraengl440\/?p=49"},"modified":"2019-02-20T01:02:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T08:02:09","slug":"assignment-26-the-map-that-roared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ganssandraengl440\/2019\/02\/20\/assignment-26-the-map-that-roared\/","title":{"rendered":"The Map that Roared – Assignment 2:6"},"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

As Moodie explains in her text Roughing it in the Bush, <\/i>there are two maps, two ways of naming and knowing the landscape.\u00a0 <\/span>While the post colonial understanding of landscapes is through a series maps that express property lines, topography and borders; The First Nations knew their lands exceptionally well based solely on their uses and their names.\u00a0 <\/span>And while, as Moodie recounts, the Mississauga First Nations were able to perfectly understand where they were on every point of Mr. Moodie\u2019s map, this knowledge was not shared. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nearly a century later during a Supreme Court hearing regarding the Gitxsan and Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en peoples\u2019 land claim Judge McEachern was presented with a map drawn by First Nations People, once he was unable to orientate himself, he deemed the map as in adequate evidence.\u00a0 <\/span>McEachern was unable to understand the map which connected stories, songs and landscapes as the First Nations would have known it previous to the European colonialists.\u00a0 <\/span>When dismissing the map the judge made the controversial statement \u201cwe\u2019ll call this the map that roared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sparke\u2019s article, \u201cA Map that Roared and an Original Atlas: Canada, Cartography, and the Narration of Nation\u201d deconstructs and criticizes this controversial comment.\u00a0 <\/span>Sparke first explains that by saying that the map roared he is comparing it to the idea of a paper tiger.\u00a0 <\/span>The paper tiger is a symbol for something that may appear powerful at first, but in reality bares no strength as it is just paper.\u00a0 <\/span>The reason behind this symbolism is that it is threatening that the First Nations had created a map that used Western language and terms, however in the end, it is irrelevant and they First Nations have no power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sparke\u2019s second explantation drew reference to a 1959 satirical movie called \u201cThe Mouse that Roared\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>Sparke believed that McEachern was comparing the First Nations attempt to reclaim their land, as ineffectual as the movie depiction of a small European country waging war against the United States economy due to wine exportations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In conclusion, this reading displays the intolerance and ignorance the Canadian government had (and still in some regards has) with First Nations traditions and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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 … <\/p>\n

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