Rematriating the Map: Indigenous Cartographies for Alternative Futures - Clancy Wilmott

Rematriating the Map: Indigenous Cartographies for Alternative Futures - Clancy Wilmott, University of California, Berkeley
In April 2021 studio.geo?, a cartographic and media design studio based at the University of California, Berkeley was approached by the Sogorea Té Land Trust, an Indigenous, women-led urban land trust based in Oakland, CA to collaboratively make a map of the Ohlone Bay Area. This paper discusses our process: wading through traumatic archives, basket-weaving contours, creating sovereign servers and asking: is it possible to decolonise the fundamentals of cartography itself to produce a map that depicts a cosmography, rather than a history, a living world, rather than abstracted data, a map that rather than fixing a moment in time, represents the landscapes as a series of seasonal space-times through which communities of people live and move?
This presentation was made at the 2022 annual meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). For more information on NACIS, check out NACIS.org.