Making maps speak: the The'wá:lí Community Digital Mapping Project

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dc.contributor.authorTrimble, Sabina
dc.contributor.supervisorLutz, John S. (John Sutton)
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-09T22:49:07Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_US
dc.date.issued2016-09-09
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe The’wá:lí Community Digital Mapping Project is a collaborative, scholarly project for which the final product is a digital, layered map of the reserve and traditional lands of the Stó:lō (Xwélmexw) community of The’wá:lí (Soowahlie First Nation). The map, containing over 110 sites and stretching from Bellingham Bay, Washington in the west to Chilliwack Lake, B.C. in the east, is hyperlinked with audio, visual and textual media that tell stories about places of importance to this community. The map is intended to give voice to many different senses of and claims to place, and their intersections, in the The’wá:lí environment, while also exploring the histories of how these places and their meanings have changed over time. It expresses many, often conflicting, ways of understanding the land and waterways in this environment, and presents an alternative to the popular, colonial narrative of the settlement of the Fraser Valley. Thus, the map, intended ultimately for The’wá:lí’s use, is also meant to engage a local, non-Indigenous audience, challenging them to rethink their perceptions about where they live and about the peoples with whom they share their histories and land. The essay that follows is a discussion of the relationship-building, research, writing and map-building processes that have produced the The’wá:lí Community Digital Map.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0740en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0509en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0366en_US
dc.description.proquestemailsabinatrimble@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7541
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectStó:lōen_US
dc.subjectspace and placeen_US
dc.subjectstorytellingen_US
dc.subjectcounter-mappingen_US
dc.subjectdigital humanitiesen_US
dc.subjectcommunity-engaged researchen_US
dc.subjectdigital mappingen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous historyen_US
dc.subjectcolonial historyen_US
dc.subjectreserve historyen_US
dc.subjectFirst Nations mappingen_US
dc.subjectSoowahlieen_US
dc.subjectChilliwacken_US
dc.titleMaking maps speak: the The'wá:lí Community Digital Mapping Projecten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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