Indigenous (Re)Mapping
An innovative digital project, NLD offers much to its viewers. These users might keep in mind, however, that cartography as a technology—even when repurposed by/for Indigenous people—still tends to portray land in a particularly stable and bounded way that defies, for example, the Life’s more dynamic way of understanding the land. Although NLD offers many overlapping “boundary” lines which signal joint tribal usership, the medium does not easily allow for seasonal, or even chronological, shifts. While certainly a generative Indigenous project of (re)—or counter—mapping, NLD, as this exhibit’s examination of the Life has sought to demonstrate, is a useful-though-not-final tool to unravel the settler colonial script.