Name
Map-making and memory-making : storytelling and emotional cartographies of the Nitassinan
Date & Time
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Description

This presentation focuses on mapping practices that aim to document, revitalize and transmit memory, both that of the territory and that of the people who dwell in it. Deployed as part of projects carried out in collaboration with the Innu community of Pessamit, these participatory, narrative and post-representational mapping practices (Caquard and Joliveau, 2016) support efforts to demonstrate territorial ruptures, but also cultural revitalization efforts, in the context of the industrial and colonial land-grab of Nitassinan (Innu ancestral territory). Two examples will be more specifically presented. Adèle Clapperton-Richard will first discuss the process of mapping the life stories of the Pessamiushkueuat (women of Pessamit) as part of their doctoral research. The trajectories recounted by the Pessamiushkueuat and their journeys on Nitassinan were mapped in order to visualize the nodes, lines and meshes of their dwelling and ways of inhabiting, knowing and experiencing the territory (Ingold, 2022). The maps thus become both supports for the stories and narratives told, and processes for recounting and recollecting territorial memory. Justine Gagnon will then present the creation process of the digital map that accompanies the podcast “Sous les barrages: Tshishe Manikuan”. She will first discuss how maps can be used for and as storytelling. She will also demonstrate how important Indigenous place names are to express and represent a geography of movement. This data, however, is often sensitive, particularly in the context of land claim, which require certain precautions pertaining to the precision with which the information is mapped. Finally, Justine will present how the use of historical maps and artworks has enabled her to produce what might be referred to as a deep map.

Location Name
Canal (CB) 3400
Session Type
Oral Presentation
Abstract ID
248
Speaker Name
Adèle Clapperton-Richard (they/she)
Speaker Organization
Université Laval
Session Name
CS134-B Indigenous and Historical Cartography and Geomatics