Cartographic Poetry: Examining Historic Blackfo. Binnema, Binnema, Lanoe, Py**

University of Alberta Press

Cartographic PoetryExamining Historic Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Maps\nAuthor(s): Ted Binnema, Franois Lano, Heinz W. Pyszczyk\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Alberta Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Alberta Press\nISBN-13: 9781772127997, 978-1772127997\nSynopsis\nPoetry is language condensed; Blackfoot cartography is landscape distilled. Cartographic Poetry is the first book-length, multidisciplinary study of five maps drawn in 1801 and 1802 by several Blackfoot and Gros Ventre people for the Hudsons 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 f.