Western mapmaking, with focus on property ownership and reinforcing power structures, led to widespread erasure of Indigenous people their traditional lands. Now, Indigenous cartographers are actively working to counter that erasure by decolonizing maps. https://www.opb.org/article/2020/11/28/indigenous-peoples-in-oregon-and-beyond-are-decolonizing-maps/
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Yes... I have done map illustrations for books and brochures and I studied GIS ... didnāt finish that, though... a work in progress, still
Iāve always been fascinated by the older ones, especially.