NACIS 2024

A Land Acknowledgment Map for Northern Utah
Ryan Frazier, Weber State University
This short talk will display the Land Cessation map created for Northern Utah and Weber State University regions. We will address the process that led us to the current map and show a few steps and iterations that we took to arrive at this current version.

Illustrating Ahupuaʻa , the Hawaiian System of Land Stewardship
Rosemary Wardley, National Geographic
Come join as a cartographer makes more of a graphic and less of a map and explore what can be learned from embracing the collaborative process working with Indigenous Hawaiian artists and knowledge holders. Featured in the July National Geographic Special Issue on Indigenous Futures, Ancient Practice, Future Promise is an illustration that looks at the historical and future applications of ahupa'a land divisions.

Mushing and Mapping: Finding the Ancient Cedars of the Boundary Waters
Jake Steinberg, Minnesota Star Tribune
News cartographers don't often get out into the field. But in February, the Minnesota Star Tribune sent me on a 5-day dogsled journey into the Boundary Waters to find what may be the oldest tree in the state—a cedar said to be over a thousand years old. In this talk, I will discuss how this journey informed my map design, the nuances of spelling Indigenous place names, adapting historical maps into a pastiche style, and breaking down organizational silos to make a cross-departmental project like this happen.

Where Rivers, Mountains and People Meet
Jeff Clark, Clark Geomatics
A spectacular route from Vancouver to Pemberton links the Pacific Ocean to the snowy peaks of the Coastal Mountains in SW British Columbia. Scenic Highway 99 clings to the eastern slope of Howe Sound, a glacier-carved fiord, through Squamish and north alongside the Cheakamus River as it makes its way past Whistler to Pemberton. The Lil’wat, one of the First Peoples of the Sea to Sky, aptly refer to their home as the place “where rivers, mountains and people meet.” This talk will cover my cartographic decisions, tools, techniques and data used to create the terrain, and how I incorporated First Nations place names to recognize the long indigenous presence in the area to produce this geographically expressive map – The Essential Geography of the Sea To Sky.

Creating a Digital, Indigenous Walking Tour of UW-Madison: Reflections on Collaboration, Justice, and Place
Gareth Baldrica-Franklin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mapping Teejop is a digital walking tour centered on Indigenous history and presence on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. This presentation discusses the multi-layed process of creating Mapping Teejop, particularly the importance of collaboration and flexibility with students and community members. Walking tours can evoke a more intimate connection to place, and this project is situated without our attempts to reinforce the position of campus as an Indigenous place.

Wairarapa Glistening Water: Reflections on a Co-Designed Spatial Narrative Virtual Reality (VR) App
Mairead de Roiste, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Kahungunu ki Wairarapa and the SpatialThink Lab at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington co-designed and co-created a simple spatial VR (Virtual Reality) application for a unique storytelling experience for five wetlands in the Wairarapa in Aotearoa New Zealand. We use ambisonic sound, 360-degree video, landscape representation, and recorded narratives composed by Kahungunu to tell the korero (stories) of these wetlands.
This presentation will detail the collaborative underpinnings of the project and discuss the decisions and compromises made to represent the wetlands while following the needs and values of the iwi (tribe).