{"id":1788590,"date":"2020-04-01T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788590"},"modified":"2020-03-31T18:19:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T22:19:12","slug":"an-interview-with-margaret-pearce-mapmaker-of-indigenous-place-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/an-interview-with-margaret-pearce-mapmaker-of-indigenous-place-names\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Margaret Pearce, Mapmaker of Indigenous Place Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Coming<\/a><\/p>\n

Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada<\/em><\/a>, a wall map of indigenous place names in Canada, came out in 2018. A few days ago Design Feminism<\/em> posted an interview with the mapmaker<\/a>, Dr. Margaret Pearce, in which she talks about engaging with Indigenous communities, her design decisions, and other behind-the-scenes detail. [Leventhal<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Previously: Indigenous Place Names in Canada<\/a>; Indigenous Place Names and Cultural Property<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada, a wall map of indigenous place names in Canada, came out in 2018. A few days ago Design Feminism posted an interview with the mapmaker, Dr. Margaret… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[131,851,698],"class_list":["post-1788590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-toponyms","tag-canada","tag-first-nations","tag-indigenous","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1810317,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/12\/the-bois-forte-native-names-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788590,"position":0},"title":"The Bois Forte Native Names Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"5 December 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"The Bois Forte Native Names Map collects more than 100 original Ojibwe names in the traditional territory of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, in what is now northeastern Minnesota. 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