Fri May 7 detailed schedule

Community-Consulted Indigenous Mapping Methodologies: Mapping the Cemetery at Soowahlie First Nation

Abstract

How can settler-colonial mapping tools and related digital technologies be used in a culturally sensitive and informed way when mapping Indigenous cemeteries? In the spring of 2019, I partnered with Soowahlie First Nation as part of the University of Victoria’s Ethnohistory Field School. Soowahlie’s proposed project was a map of their community cemetery. In working with Soowahlie elders, knowledge-keepers, and the Nation’s band office, I tried to create a map which considers elder testimony, community memory, archived knowledge, cultural practices, observational data, and access protocols. This project serves as a small example of larger questions and issues around the links between technology and community-consulted history. 

Presenter(s)

Jill Levine (University of Victoria, MA student)

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