Does anyone know: does the book only cover US territories?


 
 
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(705) 675-1151 x3325>>> On 23/01/2015 at 2:07 PM,
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It appears you can see something of a preliminary summary of what is
included here:
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/21727/nh_cole_sutton_2013.pdf?sequence=1
.

		  Joel Kovarsky

On 1/23/15 1:48 PM, Angela R Cope wrote:






Dan Cole, the Natural History Museum GIS guru (among other things), has
recently co-published a 3-volume set on Mapping Native America.  It was
printed by CreateSpace and is handsomely done with clear colorful images
and lots of good info.  He has provided the description below:
 
 
Mapping Native America: Cartographic Interactions between Indigenous
Peoples, Government and Academia
Edited by Daniel G. Cole and Imre Sutton.  
 
 
Seven years in the making, the three volumes include a Preface, 42
chapters, plus an extensive Addenda. The volumes are divided as:
Volume I: Cartography and the Government
Volume II: Cartography and the Academy
Volume III: Cartography and Indigenous Autonomy 
We do not claim that this work is comprehensive concerning indigenous
groups, tribes, and first nations across North America. The selection of
maps for any given time-period has depended on several variables:
applicable maps and interpreters of maps.  There have been limitations
in both cases, yet many welcomed opportunities to balance the
contributor group of about four dozen scholars have occurred.  Not
everyone of interest to us proved to be available; and some scholars did
not consider themselves to be experts on the cartographic side of their
research.  In one arena -- Native land claims, we were fortunate to
secure contributions from scholars who have participated as expert
witnesses in earlier litigation.
Our organizational sense has led us to single out specific cartographic
players -- we call them producers -- in Native America since contact.  		
 
Indigenous contributions to the cartography of Native America precede
EuroAmerican occupation and exploration of the continent.  Tribal
mapmaking, even if not parallel to the European tradition, has played an
important role in the occupation of the continent and too often in the
displacement of American Indians.  But tribes since the 1970s slowly but
surely have initiated and been assisted in the development of the means
to produce maps and related GIS technology.  Some of that training and
expertise have come from both governmental and academic auspices. 
Contributing to many newer maps that serve tribal land and resource
management are various forms of land trusts and other institutional
means reflecting newer trends in tribal conservation, especially in
terms of bringing tribes into co-management with public land agencies.
Government, early on, from colonial through federal eras, has dominated
the scene ever since in terms of tribes, communities, lands, resources,
and activities, although this does not mean that state and local
government mapmaking is non-existent.  But the intervening
administrative unit – the territory – played a major role in the
negotiation of treaties leading to land cessions. In fact, the earlier
meaning of extraterritorial should tell us that tribes retained their
sovereignty beyond territorial boundaries and that the establishment of
territorial government forewarned tribes of the very real threat of land
diminishment.  Nonetheless, government mapping has covered nearly all
aspects of the cultural and physical environments of Native America. 
Academia, dating back to the early 1800s, including such cartographic
contributions which are not entirely products of college or university
scholars, but their development, design and printing reflect an academic
and/or scientific endeavor about Native America.  At a much later date,
academia is participating in the fieldwork, data-gathering, design and
production of maps and atlases.  Scholars also have figured prominently
as the leaders and synthesizers of the legal cartography of tribal land
claims.
 

Maggie Dittemore
John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C.​



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