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From Classroom Walls to the Colonial Gaze: Rethinking the World Map | Political Pandora According to the Forum ERF Policy Portal, scholars have questioned whether the standard Mercator projection was a political tool that contributed to the scramble for Africa by various Western powers. ...

From Classroom Walls to the Colonial Gaze: Rethinking the World Map

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10 months ago

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Annette S. Lee Annette S. Lee is an American astrophysicist, award-winning artist, and civic engagement leader. Much of Lee's work focuses on Indigenous Knowledge and epistemologies. Lee is the director of Native Skywatchers, a program created to record, map, and share Indigenous star knowledge. Lee is mixed-race Lakota and works with Ojibwe, Dakota and Lakota communities to preserve those cultures' astronomical and ecological knowledge. Lee has worked as an expert consultant for UNESCO, curated prestigious exhibitions, served as a world-class science communicator, and presented keynotes to organizations and at major conferences around the world. ANNETTE S. LEE | Artist-Astronomer | Indigenous | DSc | PhD | https://annettelee.com/

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Annette S. Lee Cree Star Map Order a copy from the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre https://mfnerc.org/product/cree-star-map/ Buck, W. (2016). Ininew achakos masinikan = Cree star map-book (A. S. Lee & W. P. (Artist) Wilson (Eds.)). Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Inc.

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Annette S. Lee MAP ART 2022 “MNI SOTA MAKOCE – MINNESOTA ICONIC ANIMALS“ Annette S. Lee, Summer Solstice Art, June 21, 2022 Map Art includes both place-based, geographical information and Digital art to communicate a visual style. This work tells the story of how Ojibwe celestial animals or constellations are mirrored or paired with their matching land animal. The fundamental epistemology (or theory of knowledge) here comes from the Lakota teaching of Kapemni. (English translation ‘As it is Above, It is Below‘ Ref. Albert Whitehat Senior). This work and art practice is built around a participatory relationship to Sky and Earth. From Lee ANNETTE S. LEE | Artist-Astronomer | Indigenous | DSc | PhD | MFA | MFA. website https://annettelee.com/index.php/portfolio/anchored-to-earth-by-starlight/

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Annette S. Lee American #astrophysicist, artist, who's work focuses on Indigenous Knowledge and epistemologies.
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10 months ago

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Shanawthitit Born in Newfoundland in 1801, Shawnadithit's childhood with her Beothuk tribe was cut short as she witnessed her own people intentionally driven to extinction by the British Marines. She survived against all odds and "eventually became known as the last "full-blooded" member of her tribe, the last Beothuk left to tell her people's stories. In her twenties, Shawnadithit found work as a servant in a white settlement. It was there that the explorer William Cormack, who was working to found a center devoted to Beothuk history, took great anthropological interest in Shawnadithit. After learning English, she recited her tribe's stories to Cormack, however she showed a greater affinity for drawing. In 1829, Shawnadithit created narrative maps of the lake where her people made camp in central Newfoundland, today the lake is known as Red Indian Lake. Her maps showcase the Beothuk movements and European conflicts from eighteen years prior. The drawings contained incredible geographical accuracy and signified the last accounts of the Beothuk people in Newfoundland. Her stories, maps and beliefs she shared after her devastating childhood have become a symbol of a chapter in Canadian history marked by tragedy.

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Shanawthitit Title : Shanawdithit's Drawings Creator : Shanawdithit, 1801-1829 Physical Description : negatives Sketch #4 Last resting place of Beothucks on Badger River. Negatives of Shanawdithit's drawings in James P. Howley's The Beothucks or Red Indians, the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland. Cambridge: University Press, 1915. The negatives were prepared for the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Title from the section of the same name in Howley's book.

Shanawdithit, The Last of the Beothuk 2003 / Sculpture In 1823, English furriers captured Demasduit’s niece, Shanawdithit, who lived in St. John’s until her death in 1829 and became legendary as the last of the Beothuk. In Shanawdithit, The Last of the Beothuk, Belmore commemoratively evokes the woman’s presence (and absence) with haunting stone sculptures of her feet and hands, rounded as if worn by water, sensuously connecting her to the land from which she was taken. These objects also suggest traces of ‘primitive’ culture, the artifact-like qualities echoing the anthropological interest Shanawdithit endured. Heather Anderson, Rebecca Belmore: What Is Said and What Is Done, Carleton University Art Gallery in partnership with National Gallery of Canada’s Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, June 2013 Photo credit: Trevor Mills / Vancouver Art Gallery, Justin Wonnacott / CUAG (detail) Online: https://www.rebeccabelmore.com/shanawdithit-the-last-of-the-beothuk/

A bronze statue of Shanawdithit, the last known Beothuk woman, is located at Boyd's Cove, near the Beothuk Interpretation Centre in Newfoundland. The statue, titled "The Spirit of the Beothuk," was created by artist Gerald Squires and unveiled in 2000. It stands as a memorial to Shanawdithit, who died in 1829. The statue is a life-sized depiction of Shanawdithit, and it is located in the forest surrounding the interpretation center. The unveiling of the statue coincided with Shanawdithit's recognition as a National Historic Person in 2000. In addition to the statue, a plaque commemorating her life was also unveiled at Bannerman Park in St. John's in 2007. From: Heritage Newfoundland & Labrador -- Disappearance of the Beothuk https://tinyurl.com/3nvd4p9x

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Shanawthitit The last Beothuk left to tell their stories
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10 months ago

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Marlena Myles is a self-taught Native American (enrolled Spirit Lake Dakota & also of Mohegan and Muscogee descent) artist located in St Paul, Minnesota. Her art brings modernity to Indigenous history, languages and oral traditions while using the land as a teacher. Minnesota is the traditional homelands of the Dakota people and the Dakota land maps Myles created teach all about the relationships and histories that are embedded as geographical data in the land, by reclaiming the Dakota names to these places. https://marlenamyl.es/ Dakota Land Maps Myles, Marlena. (2020). Dakhóta Thamákhočhe. Mnísota Wakpá Makhósmaka = Minnesota River Valley / illustrated by Marlena Myles ; translations by Dawí. [Map] Myles, Marlena. (2019). Dakhóta Thamákhočhe. Bde Óta Othúŋwe & Imnížaska Othúŋwe = Minneapolis & Saint Paul / illustrated by Marlena Myles ; translations by Dawí. [Map] View (and order) the Dakota land maps at: https://marlenamyl.es/project/dakota-land-map/

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Marlena Myles - [portion] Prairie Island • Red Wing (Beautiful Village of the Bluffs-Water-Woods).

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Marlena Myles - Dakota Land Maps marlenamyl.es/project/dako...

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