Panel Discussion 1: Counter Mapping

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Alycia de Mesa: Chi’chil Countermapping Project

Alycia will be discussing a project initiated by students at ASU that takes a decolonized research methods approach to mapping the growth range of Emory Oak Acorn (“chi’chil” in Western Apache) with a focus on inter-tribal Apache community member digital stories as part of the map experience. The project encompasses the intersection of ethical digital storytelling, decolonized and two-eyed seeing methods, Indigenous data sovereignty, and informal, intergenerational community learning.

Gerad Smith & Evelynn Combs: Mapping Traditional Place Names in Alaska

In 2013, Smith began mapping traditional Atna place names to inform the archaeological record better and add a new dimension of research for the protection of Alaska Native traditional land use in the impact area of the Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric Project in Alaska. That project proved a catalyst for creating a comprehensive geodatabase of Alaska Native place names which now includes over 21,000 toponyms in 26 languages between the United States and Canada. The database has become a multi-purpose tool used to inform traditional history, document the erosive effects of the colonial present, and offers future potential for the intersection of education, land claims, and language revitalization. Our talk will focus on two aspects: how the traditional place names inform the deep history of the Dene people in Alaska and how this tool is being used by the community members of the Mendas Cha’ag Healy Lake Traditional Council.

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Time

(Monday) 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM(GMT-07:00) View in my time

Location

Enoch Ballroom

Speakers for this event

  • Alycia De Mesa

    Alycia De Mesa

    Assistant Director of Digital Equity & Social Impact

    Alycia de Mesa's lineage is as a fourth generation of Arizona and a mixed-race American of Mexican, Apache of Chihuahua, MX, Japanese, British-German descent. She is the Assistant Director of Digital Equity & Social Impact at ASU Enterprise Technology, a Senior Global Futures Scholar for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, and School of Sustainability faculty instructor. Alycia is currently pursuing her Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology (PhD) doctoral degree from ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society, where she is exploring the ethics and boundaries of Indigenous storytelling and counter mapping in context to emerging technologies and smartphones for traditional ecological knowledge restoration within borderlands Indigenous communities.

    Assistant Director of Digital Equity & Social Impact

  • Evelynn Combs

    Evelynn Combs

    Cultural Resource Manager & Vice President, Healy Lake Village

    I am an indigenous anthropologist from Healy Lake, Alaska. Currently, I work for my tribe as a cultural resource manager and serve on my tribe's council as Vice President. My primary focus has been to obtain the education necessary to conduct restorative and preservation-focused research in my home village. Many of the projects I've been able to complete in Healy Lake have focused on applying our knowledge of the past to the way we interact and understand the landscape today.

    Cultural Resource Manager & Vice President, Healy Lake Village

  • Gerad Smith

    Gerad Smith

    Associate Researcher, University of Alaska Fairbanks

    I am an anthropologist/archaeologist from Alaska. I am an Associate Researcher with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and an archaeologist with Brice Engineering, a construction subsidiary of Calista Corporation, an Alaska Native Regional Corporation. My anthropological research work focuses on the intersection of Traditional Knowledge and Archaeology. An essential expression of this has been mapping traditional place names in GIS format since 2013.

    Associate Researcher, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Schedule

    • Day 1
    • November 21, 2022
    • 3:15pm PANEL DISCUSSION 1: COUNTER MAPPING3:15pm - 4:15pmAlycia de Mesa: Alycia will be presenting on the Chi'chil Countermapping Project, a project initiated by students at ASU that takes a decolonized research methods approach to mapping the growth range of Emory Oak Acorn ("chi'chil" in Western Apache) with a focus on inter-tribal Apache community member digital stories as part of the map experience. The project encompasses the intersection of ethical digital storytelling, decolonized and two-eyed seeing methods, Indigenous data sovereignty, and informal, intergenerational community learning. Gerard and Evelynn: Mapping Traditional Place Names in Alaska In 2013, Smith began mapping traditional Atna place names to inform the archaeological record better and add a new dimension of research for the protection of Alaska Native traditional land use in the impact area of the Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric Project in Alaska. That project proved a catalyst for creating a comprehensive geodatabase of Alaska Native place names which now includes over 21,000 toponyms in 26 languages between the United States and Canada. The database has become a multi-purpose tool used to inform traditional history, document the erosive effects of the colonial present, and offers future potential for the intersection of education, land claims, and language revitalization. Our talk will focus on two aspects: how the traditional place names inform the deep history of the Dene people in Alaska and how this tool is being used by the community members of the Mendas Cha'ag Healy Lake Traditional Council.Speakers: Alycia De Mesa, Evelynn Combs, Gerad Smith

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