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ZOLTÁN GROSSMAN Faculty member in Geography and Native American Studies, The Evergreen State College
Lab 1, Room 3012, 2700 Evergreen Pkwy. NW,
Olympia, WA 98505 USA
Tel. (360) 867-6153
- NATIVE MAPPING LINKS
- Globalization effects on Indigenous Peoples (pdf map)
- ESRI Native Conservation papers & links
- Aboriginal Mapping Network
- Tribal Nations websites
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge & database
- Native American Map Links
- Indian Land Areas (1978)
- Maps of Native Nations (1997)
- Tribal Census Tract Outline Maps
- Native Land Cessions maps
- Reservation maps by state
- Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group of the
- American Association of Geographers (AAG)
- GEOGRAPHY BROCHURE FOR NATIVE STUDENTS (pdf)
- ARTICLES ON NATIVE GIS & COUNTERMAPPING
- Indigenous Geography as Discipline Arrives
- By the Editors (Indian Country Today)
- Indigenous Geography is a Good Approach
- By the Editors (Indian Country Today)
- Native American and First Nations’ GIS
- By Jhon Goes In Center (Oglala Lakota)
GIS, Indigenous Peoples, and Epistemological Diversity
By Robert A. Rundstrom
- The Gitxsan Model: A Vision for the Land and the People
- Russell Collier, , Martine Rose
- Strategic Watershed Analysis Team, British Colombia, Canada
- Sliammon First Nation Uses GIS to Map Traditional Values
- Laura K. Roddan and Arlene C. Harry
- Powell River, Canada
- How to Grow Tribal Environmental Protection and GIS
- Aimee Mitchell,
- St. Regis (Akwesasne) Mohawk Tribe, New York
- GIS Implementation at the Squamish Nation
- Jason Calla and Richard Koett
- British Columbia, Canada
- GIS Implementation Experience in Wisconsin Winnebago Nation
- Ping, He 1995
- The Role of GIS in Integrated Resource Management
- for First Nations Initiatives in Alberta
- Ralph Makokis and David Buckley
- The Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- by First Nations
- by Benjamin D. Johnson
- School of Community and Regional Planning,
- University of British Columbia
- Geomatics: Who Needs It?
- By Peter Poole
- Cultural Survival Quarterly 18(4)
- and Guide to the Technology
- Or do a search at http://www.culturalsurvival.org
- Geomatics and Political Empowerment: The Yuqui “…
- that master tool, geography’s perfection, the map.”
- By Jarvis, Keith A.; Stearman, Allyn MacLean
- Cultural Survival Quarterly 18.4
- Or do a search at http://www.culturalsurvival.org
- Land-Based Communities, Geomatics and Biodiversity Conservation
- By Peter Poole,
- Cultural Survival Quarterly 18.4
- Or do a search at http://www.culturalsurvival.org
- Towards Information Self-Sufficiency:
- The Nunavik Inuit gather information on ecology and land use
- By Brooke, Lorraine F.; Kemp, William B.
- Cultural Survival Quarterly 18.4
- Or do a search at http://www.culturalsurvival.org
- Ethnocartography in the Darien
- By Chapin, Mac; Herrera, Francisco; Gonzalez, Nicanor
- Cultural Survival Quarterly 18.4
- Or do a search at http://www.culturalsurvival.org
- Defending the Miskito Reefs with Maps and GPS:
- Mapping With Sail, Scuba, and Satellite
- By Nietschmann, Bernard
- Cultural Survival Quarterly 18.4
- Or do a search at http://www.culturalsurvival.org
- GIS and Long Range Economic Planning for Indigenous Territories
- By Smith, Richard Chase
- Cultural Survival Quarterly 18.4
- Or do a search at http://www.culturalsurvival.org
- Gendered Resource Mapping: Focusing on Women’s Spaces in the Landscape
- By Edmunds, David; Thomas-Slayter, Barbara; Rocheleau, Dianne
- Cultural Survival Quarterly 18.4
- Or do a search at http://www.culturalsurvival.org
- Direct Divisions
- by Jose Barriero, Native Americas journal
- The Stó:lô-Coast Salish Historical Atlas
- By: Leeanna Rhodes
- The Heiltsuk Map Atlas: a story of success
- By David Carruthers and Bo Reid
- Putting Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) into Action:
- Mapping the Transition
- By Caron Olive and David Carruthers (Vancouver)
- Sharing Information or Captured Heritage:
- Access to community geographic knowledge
- and the state’s responsibility to protect
- aboriginal rights in British Columbia
- Martin S. Weinstein
- A Map that Roared and an Original Atlas:
- Canada’s Ends, Cartographic Beginnings
- and the Narration of Nation
- By Matthew Sparke
- Virtual Taro Patch
- Kaua’i, Hawai’i
- Traditional Tenure among the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en:
- its Relationship to Common Property, and Resource Allocation
- Leslie Main Johnson
- University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
- Nation-building and the B.C. Treaty Process
- Remarks by Stephen Cornell
- A Culturally Relevant Solution for the Implementation of
- Geographic Information Systems in Indian Country
- Marozas, Bryan A. (Abstract)
- Enhancing Tribal Integrated Resource Management Plans by Integrating
- Traditional Knowledge with Geographic Information System Technology
- Marozas, Bryan A. (Abstract)
- The Role of Geographic Information Systems in
- American Indian Land and Water Rights Litigation
- Marozas, Bryan A. (Abstract)
- Text for all three articles from bryan_marozas@mail.bia.gov
- Best of the Web – Geographic Information Systems
NATIVE GEOGRAPHIES
Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG)
GEOGRAPHY BROCHURE FOR NATIVE STUDENTS (pdf)
GENERAL NATIVE LINKS
Great Lakes:
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council
Midwest Treaty Network UWEC American Indian Studies Program
Native resources in McIntyre Library
WOJB-FM Radio (Lac Courte Oreilles)
Gt. Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission
United States:
Tribal Census Tract Outline Maps
U.S. Native Relations (Yale documents)
Indigenous Environmental Network
American Memory (Library of Congress documents and maps)
National Park Service Tribal Preservation
North America:
Native Americans and the Environment
Native American tribal homepages
Native organizations & urban centers
Traditional Ecological Knowledge & database
News from Indian Country archives
Honoring Our Neighbors’ Origins & Rights
ESRI Native Conservation papers & links
Canada:
First Nations Environmental Network
Aboriginal Digital Collections
First Nation Information Project
International Indigenous:
Center for World Indigenous Studies
Fourth World Documentation Archives
United Nations Indigenous Forum
U.N. Indigenous Resources & Guide
Society for Endangered Peoples
Globalization effects on Indigenous Peoples (pdf map)
COUNTERMAPPING & NATIVE GIS LINKS
TRIBAL NATION CASE STUDIES
Map of nations
The books and websites are not necessarily endorsed by Professor Grossman as complete or accurate sources;
all should be read critically. Major geography-related link suggestions are welcome. Links are subject to change!
| # | Tribal nation | Other tribal name(s) (and language family) |
Lands in states/ provinces |
Book/chapter sources (check in library) | Native website sources and current issues |
| 1 | Lake Superior Ojibwe | Chippewa, Anishinaabeg
(Algonquian language family) |
N. WI, N.E. MN, U.P. | Loew (pp 54-83)
Wisconsin’s Past & Present(pp10-11, 14-15) |
GLIFWC |
| 2 | Other Ojibwe | Chippewa, Ojibwa, Anishinaabeg, Anishinabek
(Algonquian language family) |
N.W. MN, S. MI, ND, S. Manitoba, Ontario | Same as above
LaDuke, Ch. 6 |
Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa |
| 3 | Potawatomi | Pottawatomie, Bodewadmi, Nishnawbe (Algonquian language family) |
WI, MI, Ontario, KS, OK | Loew (pp 84-99)
Wisconsin’s Past & Present (pp 12-15) |
Forest County Potawatomi |
| 4 | Menominee | Omaeqnominnewwuk
(Algonquian language family) |
WI | Loew (pp 24-39)
Wisconsin’s Past & Present (pp 6-7, 14-15) |
Menominee Treaty Rights |
| 5 | Oneida | Onyota’a:ka
Part of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Six Nations Confederacy) (Iroquoian language family) |
WI, NY, Ontario | Loew (pp 100-112)
Wisconsin’s Past & Present (pp 6-7, 14-15) |
Oneida Nation WI |
| 6 | Mohican | Muhhekaneok
Stockbridge- Munsee Band (WI) (Algonquian language family) |
WI, NY, NJ, MA | Loew (pp 113-123)
Wisconsin’s Past & Present (pp 6-7) |
Mohican Nation |
| 7 | Dakota | Santee Sioux, Mdewakanton Dakota
(Siouan language family) |
MN, NE, E. SD | Wisconsin’s Past & Present (pp 8-9) | Prairie Island Community |
| 8 | Lakota | Teton Sioux
(Siouan language family) |
W. SD, ND | Lakota Woman | Black Hills Defenders |
| 9 | Ho-Chunk | Winnebago, Hocak, Hochungra, Hotcak
(Siouan language family) |
WI, NE | Loew (pp 40-53)
Wisconsin’s Past & Present (pp 8-9, 14-15) |
Ho-Chunk Nation (WI) |
| 10 | Navajo | Diné
(Athabascan language family) |
AZ, NM, UT | Book of the Navajo | Black Mesa |
| 11 | Hopi | Moqui
(Aztec-Tanoan language family) |
AZ | Book of the Hopi | Navajo-Hopi land dispute |
| 12 | Pueblo tribes | Taos, Picuris, San Juan, Santa Clara, Nambe, San Ildefonso, Pojoaque, Tesuque, Jemez, Sandia, Isleta (Aztec-Tanoan family); Laguna, Acoma, Cochiti, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, San Felipe, and Zia (Keresan family); Zuñi (Penutian family) | NM | Pueblo Nations | Pueblo Indian overview
Search for Pueblo tribes listed at left |
| 13 | Apache | Jicarilla, Mescalero, Chiricahua, San Carlos, White Mountain
(Athabascan language family) |
AZ, NM | Wisdom Sits in Places | Apache links |
| 14 | Tohono O’odham | Papago
(Aztec-Tanoan language family) |
AZ, Mexico | Of Earth and Little Rain | Citizenship bill |
| 15 | Tlingit and Haida | (Na-Dené language family, also including Athabascan) | AK, BC | Images of a People | Tlingit-Haida Council |
| 16 | Northern Athabascan | Dené
(Athabascan language family) |
AK, Yukon, NWT | Arctic Refuge: Circle of Testimony | Gwich’in & ANWR
ANCSA & Alaska Federation of Natives |
| 17 | Inuit | Eskimo
(Eskimo-Aleut language family) |
AK, Yukon, Nunavut, Quebec, Russia, Greenland | Alaska to Nunavut | Inuit Circumpolar Conference |
| 18 | Cree | Eeyou
(Algonquian language family) |
Alberta, Sask., Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec | Defending the Land | Quebec dams |
| 19 | Seminole | Simanoli
(Muskogean language family) |
FL, OK, TX | LaDuke, Ch. 2 | Seminole Nation (OK) |
| 20 | Western Shoshone | Newe
(Aztec-Tanoan language family) |
NV, CA, UT | LaDuke, Ch. 5 | Western Shoshone Defense Project |
| 21 | Blackfeet | Siksika
Pikuni Blood and Piegan (Alberta) (Algonquian language family) |
MT, Alberta | Blackfeet bibliography | Blackfeet Nation |
| 22 | Nez Perce | Nimiipu
(Penutian language family) |
ID, OR, WA | Salmon & the People | CRITFC |
| 23 | Puget Sound tribes | Lummi, S’Klallam, Klallam, Muckleshoot, Upper Skagit, Squaxin I., Nisqually, Nooksack, Puyallup, Swinomish, Sauk-Suiattle, Tulalip, Skokomish, Stillaguamish, Suquamish, Quinault (Salish language family); Makah (Wakashan family); Quileute (Chimakuan family) | WA | Treaties on Trial | NWIFC
Search for tribes listed at left |
| 24 | Mohawk | Kahniakehake
Part of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Six Nations Confederacy) (Iroquoian language family) |
NY, Ontario, Quebec | LaDuke, Ch. 1 | Iroquois Constitution |
| 25 | Innu | Montagnais-Naskapi
(Algonquian language family) |
Quebec, Labrador | LaDuke, Ch. 3 | Innu Nation |
| 26 | Choctaw | Chata
(Algonquian language family) |
OK, MS | Removal of the Choctaw | Choctaw Nation (OK) |
| 27 | Northern Cheyenne | Tsitsistas
(Algonquian language family) |
MT | LaDuke, Ch. 4 | Northern Cheyenne Net |
| 28 | Crow | Absaroka,
Apsaalooke (Siouan language family) |
MT | Parading Through History | Crow Nation |
| 29 | Micmac | Mi’kmaq
(Algonquian language family) |
ME, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec | Resistance, Accommodation, & Cultural Survival | Burnt Church news |
| 30 | Yakama | Yakima
(Penutian language family) |
Empty Nets | CRITFC | |
| 31 | Cherokee | Tsalagi
Ani-Yun’wiya (Iroquoian language family) |
NC, OK | Cherokee Nation bibliography | Cherokee History |
| 32 | Creek | Muscogee
(Muskogean language family) |
OK | Creek Indian bibliography | Muscogee Creek Nation |
| 33 | Yurok | Olekw’ol
(Algonquian language family) |
CA | The Fisherman’s Problem | Yurok homepage |
| 34 | Osage | Wasash
(Siouan language family) |
OK | Invasion of Indian Country (Chapter 2) | Osage Nation |
| 35 | Flathead | Salish and Kootenai
(Salish language family) |
MT | Meat for My Salish (buffalo) | Salish & Kootenai Tribes |
NATIONAL HOMELANDS
(before cessions, migrations or removals)
