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Maps can be a tool in the defense of Indigenous communities against extractive industries. Canadian Centre for Architecture; Grant Tigner, painter. Seagrams Limited, publisher. The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project, in The St. Lawrence Seaway: The Realization of a Mighty Dream, 1954.

Using maps as a weapon to resist extractive industries on Indigenous territories

Sébastien Caquard, Concordia University; Annita Lucchesi, University of Lethbridge; Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill University; Leah Temper, McGill University, and Thomas Mcgurk, Concordia University

Historically, western corporate maps have been privileged over Indigenous ones. But given the essential debate of territory in resource conflicts, maps are a crucial tool.

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