H-215v. Indigenous North American Cartographies - Advance Reading List

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  • Required Reading

    Note: The readings listed below will be supplied to students after they have been admitted to the course.

    Session 1: Introduction to Indigenous American Cartographies

    Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (New Mexico 1996)

    Margaret Wickens Pearce, “The Last Piece is You” (Cartographic Journal, 51, no. 2, 2014)

    Margaret Wickens Pearce, “Indigenous Maps”

     

    Session 2: Indigenous Cartographic Presences in Colonial Books to 1800

    Christian Ayne Crouch, “Surveying the Present, Projecting the Future: Reevaluating Colonial French Plans of Kanesatake” (WMQ 3d ser., 75, no. 2, 2018)

    Malcolm Lewis, “Frontier Encounters in the Field: 1511-1925” from Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use, ed. by G. Malcolm Lewis (Chicago 1998)

     

    Session 3: Enduring and Evolving Indigenous Cartographies in the Nineteenth Century

    Phillip Round, “Indigenous Illustration” from Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880 (UNC 2010)

    Kathryn Walkiewicz, “The Boundary Line” from Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State (UNC 2023)

     

    Session 4: Illustrating Presence and Sovereignty in Modern and Contemporary Books

    Mishuana Goeman, Introduction to Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (Minnesota 2013)

    Marcel Brousseau, “Allotment Knowledges: Allotment Knowledges: Grid Spaces, Home Places, and Storyscapes on the Way to Rainy Mountain” (NAIS, 5, no. 1, 2018)

     

    Session 5: Workshop on Mapping

    Bring an Indigenous-authored scriptive text (poem, novel, story, memoir, etc.)