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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