The Indigenous Mapping Network, an affiliate of the Seventh Generation Fund, is an organization set up to help empower native communities by giving them tools they need to protect, preserve, and enhance their way of life within their aboriginal territories. We also are designed to be a conduit for native individuals and groups to meet each other in order to build relationships and assist one another in accomplishing sovereign goals.The current leaders of the network are fluent in modern mapping technologies and are concerned about how native groups approach, and are approached by, modern mapping ways and how they differ from traditional “mapping†ways of explaining one’s relation to place and space. It is our interest to bridge the gap between modern mapping technologies and traditional “mapping†practices by training indigenous groups in modern mapping ways as well as encouraging traditional “mapping†practices.It has been noted that more land has been taken away from native people by maps than by weapons. So often native lands have been and are manipulated based on an outsider’s view of where those lands “should†be and as a result the land base of an indigenous community is altered. It is our goal to let outsiders know that when it comes to learning where indigenous people’s lands are, they should let those people do the mapping, no matter how rudimentary the mapping is perceived.The IMN will lead the effort in being advocates for indigenous people and the mapping issues that take place on native lands by governments, academics, scholarly societies, and the technological world.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
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Indigenous Mapping Network Meeting in Berkeley - May 6th
