Storytelling and Cybercartography: The William Commanda story

• Main Authors: Thumbadoo, R.V. (Romola Vasantha), Taylor, D.R. (Fraser)
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Animation; Cybercartography; Ginawaydaganuc relationality; Language; Mamiwinini movement; Oral traditions; Poststructuralism; Semantics; Semiotics; Storytelling; Wampum heritage; Canada; New Ground; algonquin
• Online Access: https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/25257; https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-64193-9.00015-4

This chapter examines the storytelling approach to relationship building and knowledge generation in the work of the late Indigenous Elder William Commanda (1913–2011), as re-vitalized in Cybercartography. Storytelling is central to Cybercartography and is creating new ground for the presentation an...