{"product_id":"cartographic-poetry-ted-binnema-9781772127997","title":"Cartographic Poetry: Examining Historic Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Maps","description":"\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. Informed by a career-long fascination with this priceless archive, the Piikani Nation's placenames project, and fieldwork efforts to align Indigenous places and present geography, Ted Binnema, Fran?ois Lano?, and Heinz W. Pyszczyk study the maps as ethnohistorical sources. Exploring their beauty and utility from historical, linguistic, and archeological perspectives, the authors analyze the maps, their placenames 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 of the Great Plains, and to all readers interested in how Indigenous peoples perceived and navigated their territories in this early period of colonial encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a Foreword by Jerry Potts Jr. and an Afterword by Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ted Binnema, Fran?ois Lano?, Heinz W. Pyszczyk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 177212799X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781772127997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Alberta Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.50w x 0.75d","brand":"Ted Binnema","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465652392191,"sku":"9781772127997","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a373b50b-eb96-4c28-b2bb-f629b50502fa.jpg?v=1736346887","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cartographic-poetry-ted-binnema-9781772127997","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}