Janet Berry Hess, editor. Digital Mapping and Indigenous America

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That indigenous people perceive their lands differently from their western counterparts is an open secret. Moreover, as in settler’s societies the western understanding of geography supersedes indigenous approaches to it, western traditions of mapping are understood to be negatively impacting the native lands. The discrepancies in land “mappability” (my word – NK) loom even larger when cultural objects go online, often as part of massive attempts to digitize cultural heritage and make it acce...

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