Facing the Future: Encouraging Critical Cartographic Literacies In Indigenous Communities

摘要: As Indigenous academics researching and participating with various mapping initiatives, we have began to perceive that while many communities a long history of using Western cartographic techniques, including GIS, in their efforts establish land claims, map culturally important sites protect community resources, they were not critically aware the science which are engaged. We established our goal assist encourage development critical literacy cartography within communities. use term imply an ability read write, rather engaging part word’s etymology recognizes having competence system knowledge. is complex knowledge history, much its last 500 years being involved furthering colonial exploits European crowns. Using work Paulo Freire (2000) on consciousness as foundation, taken this concept step further describe J. B. Harley states, “[m]aps never value-free images… [c]artography can be ‘a form power’ (1988).” Our article explores order aid how engage one most prevalent informational technologies currently these communities’ modern cartography/GIS.