Theory

Using Native-Land.ca Data for Food Environment Mapping for Indigenous Communities and Populations

By Victor Temprano

Wednesday, December 4th, 2019

This is a guest post on Native Land. See more about this project at http://catherinemah.ca/. Authors: Dani Kogan, Gabriella Luongo, Catherine L. Mah Introduction Recently, I was asked to create a map to visually represent the Indigenous populations reported in a scoping review of the retail food environment and health in Indigenous populations. Globally, there is […]

Reflections on my job as Research Assistant for Native-Land

By sawya

Friday, June 29th, 2018

I am Victor Sauca, a Saraguro Kichwa from Ecuador currently working as the Research Assistant for Native Land from the ancestral, unceded lands of the Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh people in what is now-called Vancouver, Canada. I acknowledge I came here to this beautiful land as an uninvited guest and without any idea of the presence […]

What is “territory”?

By Victor Temprano

Monday, April 9th, 2018

The most popular layer on the Native Land map — and the one I have turned on by default — is the “territories” layer. This is a bit of a paradox, because it’s both the most intuitively understandable layer and the most complicated to explain. The territories layer began as something quite straightforward: mapping something […]

A Question of Borders

By Victor Temprano

Saturday, December 30th, 2017

One of the most distinctive things about the Native Land maps are the borders. They overlap crazily and make a huge mess of colours. Why’s that?

What Year Does the Map Represent?

By Victor Temprano

Wednesday, December 20th, 2017

Does time really matter on maps? Of course it does. But how you map time depends on the purpose of your map.