Maps and Mapping

https://www.historyofinformation.com/maps.php

https://theavidpedestrian.substack.com/p/black-british-psychogeography

https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/collections/show/25

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/psychogeography-a-purposeful-drift-through-the-city

Mapping Indigenous Knowledge in the Digital Age

Mapping Outside the Lines exhibition

Mapping Philippine Material Culture

UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger – A global resource tracking endangered and extinct languages. Users can explore vulnerable languages.

Native-Land.ca – A community-driven mapping project that seeks to decolonize how we visualize Indigenous territories. It challenges the traditional use of maps as tools of colonial power and ownership.

The Decolonial Atlas – A volunteer initiative compiling maps that question our understandings of geography, sovereignty, and identity, emphasizing that map-making is shaped by perspective and is not inherently neutral.

Yellowhead Institute Treaty Map – Offers Indigenous insights into treaty-making in Canada from 1763 to the present, covering treaty contexts, negotiations, terms, and the consequences of broken agreements.

First Peoples’ map of BC – An interactive map that integrates Indigenous languages, art, culture, and spatial relationships to highlight connections across present-day British Columbia.

11 Nations Autochtones & Centre d’amitié autochtones – A map by Amnesty International that highlights 10 First Nations and Inuit groups in Quebec, along with 55 Indigenous communities and friendship centres. (PDF format)

Landgrabu.org: Indigenous Land Granted to Universities – An in-depth interactive project showing how 52 U.S. land-grant universities were financed through the appropriation of 11 million acres of Indigenous land.

Residential School Locations in Canada (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada) – A map and database showing the locations of residential schools included in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.

Interactive map and data visualization database of MMIWG cases –  Displays data on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in Canada. Draws from CBC data and the Native Women’s Association of Canada’s Safe Passage project.

Canadian Geographic Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada (2018). National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Metis Nation and Indspire.

Cindy, S. G., & Mandawe, E. (2017). Indigenous geographies: Research as reconciliation. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 8 (2).

Engler, N. J. & Scassa, T. & Taylor, D. F. (2013). Mapping Traditional Knowledge: Digital Cartography in the Canadian NorthCartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization 48(3), 189-199.

Louis, R. P., Johnson, J. T., & Pramono, A. H. (2012). Introduction: Indigenous Cartographies and Counter-MappingCartographica47(2), 77-79. 

McGurk, T.J. & Caquard, S. (2020). To what extent can online mapping be decolonial? A journey throughout Indigenous cartography in Canada. The Canadian Geographer 64(1): 49-64.