Digital Mapping and Indigenous America

253 Pages·2021·15.243 MB·English

by  Janet Berry Hess

Digital Mapping and Indigenous
America
Employing anthropology, field research, and humanities methodologies as well as
digital cartography, and foregrounding the voices of Indigenous scholars, this text
examines digital projects currently underway, and includes alternative modes of
“mapping” Native American, Alaskan Native, Indigenous Hawaiian, and First
Nations land. The work of both established and emerging scholars addressing a
range of geographic regions and cultural issues is also represented. Issues addressed
include the history of maps made by Native Americans; healing and reconciliation
projects related to boarding schools; language and land reclamation; Western
cartographic maps created in collaboration with Indigenous nations; and digital
resources that combine maps with narrative, art, and film, along with chapters on
archaeology, place naming, and the digital presence of elders.
This text is of interest to scholars working in history, cultural studies,
anthropology, Native American studies, and digital cartography.
Janet Berry Hess, JD, PhD, is Professor of Art History and Project Director of the
National Endowment for the Humanities project “Mapping Indigenous Cultures and
Living Resources” at Sonoma State University.
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: Digital Mapping—Ethics, the Law, and the
Sacred 1
JANET BERRY HESS
1 Alive with Story: Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles and
Carrying Our Ancestors Home 9
SARAH MONTOYA
2 Digitally Re-Presenting the Colonial Archive: Resources for
Researching and Teaching the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
and the Native American Boarding School Movement 17
FRANK VITALE IV, SUSAN ROSE, AND JAMES GERENCSER
3 Access to Truth, Healing, and Justice: Digitizing the Records of
U.S. Indian Boarding Schools 31
CHRISTINE DIINDIISI MCCLEAVE, AND ROSE MIRON
4 The Indigenous Digital Archives: Creating Effective Access to
and Collaboration with Government Records 49
ANNA NARUTA-MOYA
5 Myaamiaataweenki Eekincikoonihkiinki Eeyoonki
Aapisaataweenki: A Miami Language Digital Tool for
Language Reclamation 60
DARYL BALDWIN, DAVID J. COSTA, DOUGLAS TROY
viii Contents
6 A Cartographic History and Analyses of Indian-White
Relations in the Great Plains 76
DANIEL G. COLE
7 Mapping with Indigenous Peoples in Canada 93
D. R. FRASER TAYLOR
8 Early California Cultural Atlas: Visualizing Uncertainties
Within Indigenous History 109
STEVEN W. HACKEL, JEANETTE ZERNEKE, AND NATALE ZAPPIA
9 Access to Government Information and Inclusive Stewardship
of North America’s Archaeological Heritage 121
ERIC C. KANSA, SARAH WHITCHER KANSA, DAVID G. ANDERSON, JOSHUA
J. WELLS, KELSEY NOACK MYERS, AND STEPHEN YERKA
10 Finding Balance Between Development and Conservation: The
O‘ahu Greenprint 139
HOLLY BOSTROM, LEA HONG, AND BREECE ROBERTSON
11 Native Land: Social Media Education and Community Voices 152
VICTOR TEMPRANO
12 Mapping Indigenous American Cultures and Living Histories
(MIAC-LH): A Gathering Place 163
JANET BERRY HESS
13 William Commanda, Oral Wampum Storytelling, Digital
Technology and Remapping Indigenous Presence Across North
America 170
ROMOLA V. THUMBADOO, AND D. R. FRASER TAYLOR
14 Indigenous Place Names as Visualizations of Indigenous
Knowledge 182
REBEKAH R. INGRAM
Appendix 193
Index 224
Figures
1.1 From “Mapping Indigenous LA: Placemaking Through Digital
Storytelling” 11
1.2 From “Repatriation Stories.” Videos and documents are organized
and accessible through Mukurtu’s meta-data tags which include
content type, community, category, and keywords 14
2.1 Example of a document post, including a summary and tags 21
2.2 Letter from Mamie Vilcan to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
November 2, 1913 23
3.1 An example of what a student record may look like in the National
Indian Boarding School Digital Archive (categories are subject to
change based on our ongoing consultation with Tribal Nations).
This is the record of a student who went missing from Chemawa
Indian School 44
4.1 Young students at the United States Indian School, Santa Fe, New
Mexico, 1900 56
5.1 Four (4) step process in building data for MIDA 66
5.2 LeBoullenger manuscript page with page and line numbers 68
5.3 Organization of the entries in LeBoullenger 69
5.4 Spreadsheet Entries for Transcription and French Translation 69
5.5 Typical search result 70
5.6 Search result with expanded fields 71
5.7 Advanced search function menu 72
6.1 Cropped portion of G. K. Warren’s map (1858) of Indian lands in
the northern and central Plains 82
6.2 Black Goose’s pictographic map (ca. 1890s) of Kiowa political
cartography 84
7.1 Map of the Distributed Data Management Network for Local and
Traditional Knowledge 96
7.2 Select categories of knowledge tiles available to be explored by
Atlas users 101
8.1 ECCA LA Basin Integrated Visualization, ECCA, 2013 116
8.2 Reference table of Native villages with tribe and location certainty
annotation, ECCA, 2013 118
9.1 Sites indexed or being incorporated into DINAA as of September
30, 2019 (n = 881,166 sites indexed, 1,045,319 sites compiled
total) 122