Mapping Contemporary Challenges to Island Hul’qumi’num Peoples’ Territories (Thom and Johnnie 2022)

TITLE: Mapping Contemporary Challenges to Island Hul’qumi’num Peoples’ Territories

AUTHOR: Brian Thom and Kathleen Johnnie

DATE: 2022

DESCRIPTION: A collection of 16 interactive maps illustrating contemporary challenges to Indigenous territoriality on southeast Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, developed in association with the INSTEAD and CICADA projects and the UVic Ethnographic Mapping Lab. This resource is an accompaniment to a forthcoming paper by Brian Thom and Kathleen Johnnie titled 'Implementing Contemporary Indigenous Territories: Mapping the Aspirations and Challenges of Island Hul'qumi'num Peoples, in Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative Development, edited by Evodia Silva-Riveria, Katie Sinclair and Colin Scott (submitted Sept 2016).

EXTRACT: “This website presents a series of interactive maps illustrating the ongoing challenges to the exercise of land, resource and governance rights from development and conservation efforts within Hul'qumi'num peoples territory. The member First Nations of the Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group are an indigenous community of Coast Salish peoples living on the southeastern coast of Vancouver Island and the surrounding Gulf Islands…”

ACCESS: Free online access here