Cartographic Poetry : Examining Historic Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Maps Nlaka’pamux Look to the Mountain

Look to the Mountain

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Doug Heckbert

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Dakwäkãda Warriors also includes a behind-the-scenes view into the making of the comic and pin-up illustrations by guest Indigenous Canadian artists

Cartographic Poetry : Examining Historic Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Maps Nlaka’pamux Look to the MountainBy authors Ted Binnema, Franois Lano and Heinz W. Pyszczyk. With a Foreword by Jerry Potts Jr. a Piikani Elder from southern Alberta. Afterword by Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn, Otahkotskina. Dr. Yellowhorn is Piikani with cultural ties to the Peigan Indian Reserve. 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