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Cartographic Poetry

by Ted Binnema

Reading Blackfoot maps as records of place and territory

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Reading Blackfoot maps as records of place and territory

Ted Binnema’s study examines five maps made in 1801 and 1802 by Blackfoot and Gros Ventre mapmakers for the Hudson’s Bay Company. The maps served as navigational tools, while also preserving evidence of places and historic Blackfoot perspectives on territory. Bringing historical, linguistic, and archaeological perspectives to these documents, the book considers what their mapped landforms and locations convey beyond practical wayfinding. Its subject connects early Indigenous mapmaking with the interpretation of landscape and the history of the North American prairies and foothills.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Indigenous history and early mapmaking
  • Those studying Blackfoot territories and the history of the North American prairies and foothills
  • Readers seeking multidisciplinary approaches to historical documents

Themes

Indigenous cartographyBlackfoot territory and placeLandscape and wayfindingHistorical, linguistic, and archaeological interpretation

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Book overview

"Poetry is language condensed; Blackfoot cartography is landscape distilled."


Cartographic Poetry is the first book-length, multidisciplinary study of five maps drawn in 1801 and 1802 by several Blackfoot and Gros Ventre people for the Hudson's Bay Company. Representing some of the oldest documents created by Indigenous people on the North American prairies and foothills, these maps preserve invaluable evidence about places on the landscape, and about historic Blackfoot views of their territories. The maps were intended as navigational tools, but the landforms and locations on the maps hold significance for the Blackfoot well beyond wayfinding, and have for many centuries. Exploring their content and utility from historical, linguistic, and archaeological perspectives, Ted Binnema, Fran

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