{"product_id":"cartographic-poetry-examining-historic-blackfoot-and-gros-ventre-maps-paperback","title":"Cartographic Poetry: Examining Historic Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Maps - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTed Binnema\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eFrançois Lanoë\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHeinz W. Pyszczyk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Poetry is language condensed; Blackfoot cartography is landscape distilled.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCartographic Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book-length, multidisciplinary study of five maps drawn in 1801 and 1802 by several Blackfoot and Gros Ventre people for the Hudson's Bay Company. Representing some of the oldest documents created by Indigenous people on the North American prairies and foothills, these maps preserve invaluable evidence about places on the landscape, and about historic Blackfoot views of their territories. The maps were intended as navigational tools, but the landforms and locations on the maps hold significance for the Blackfoot well beyond wayfinding, and have for many centuries. Exploring their content and utility from historical, linguistic, and archaeological perspectives, Ted Binnema, François Lanoë, and Heinz W. Pyszczyk analyze the maps, their place names and features, and the tours and trips they may have supported, along with providing present-day photographs of many of the maps' landforms. A final section of the book outlines how Indigenous maps contributed significantly to Western geographical knowledge and maps of North America from the 1500s onward. \u003cem\u003eCartographic Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal to anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, historians, cartographers, and to all readers interested in how Indigenous peoples perceived and navigated their territories in this early period of colonial encounter. With a Foreword by Jerry Potts Jr. and an Afterword by Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Binnema is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Vancouver Island Treaties and the Evolving Principles of Indigenous Title\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEnlightened Zeal: The Hudson's Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670-1870\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCommon and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains\u003c\/em\u003e. He co-edited with Gerhard Ens three volumes of \u003cem\u003eThe Hudson's Bay Company Edmonton House Journals\u003c\/em\u003e, published by the Historical Society of Alberta. He has also published scholarly articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics. His fascination with and research into Blackfoot and Gros Ventre maps dates to the 1990s. François Lanoë is Assistant Research Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Research Associate at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. He works on the pre-contact archaeology of Indigenous peoples of northwestern North America, from early settlement during the last Ice Age, to interactions with Euro-American colonial powers. He has worked with tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy since 2013, leading to several publications on Blackfoot archaeology, ancient DNA, and oral history. Heinz W. Pyszczyk, retired staff archaeologist with the Government of Alberta, is an adjunct professor at the University of Lethbridge. His primary research interest is Canadian fur trade archaeology and ethnohistory. His most recent publications include: \u003cem\u003eThe Last Fort Standing. Fort Vermilion and the Peace River Fur Trade, 1798-1830\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFifty years of fur trade archaeology in northern Alberta forests: what have we accomplished?\u003c\/em\u003e He has also published numerous articles in a wide range of topics in Canadian archaeology. As Parkland Archaeologist for the Government of Alberta, he first became interested in the Ki oo cus map in 2010 as it covered parts of his regional mandate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 10 x 7.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53429924364595,"sku":"9781772127997","price":75.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/KMD7KL1QBF9781772127997.webp?v=1780647123","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/cartographic-poetry-examining-historic-blackfoot-and-gros-ventre-maps-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}