<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.15;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, the Firelight Group, Google, and the University of Victoria welcomed more than 100 mappers from over 40 First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities to Victoria, August 25-28, for a 4-day </span><a href="http://imwcanada.earthoutreach.org/" target="_blank" style="line-height:1.15;text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Indigenous Mapping Workshop</span></a><span style="line-height:1.15;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. This was the second such event held during the past year, following the Indigenous Mapping Workshop hosted last December by the University of Arizona in Tucson (see </span><a href="http://ua.earthoutreach.org/" target="_blank" style="line-height:1.15;text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="line-height:1.15;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">). Read on for a description of the recent workshop by Raleigh Seamster of </span><a href="https://www.google.com/earth/outreach/index.html" target="_blank" style="line-height:1.15;text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Google Earth Outreach</span></a><span style="line-height:1.15;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: </span><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><span style="line-height:1.15;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;line-height:0.45;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/78vwA5jDyLAPLt9_CC7MaPsOWF3kUpFJt4JpuViCgcmwHP3m_F0AsLbWgFv0d3pf46w5r7qfTsR4VftgnsktygCArhRY7-1z9ug7MuTTcMq-IQsWf7jlAclv_3MrpRUpkQ" width="20px;" height="8px;" style="border: none;"></font></span></p><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px"><font color="#000000"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Over the course of the workshop, participants shared insights and innovations from their own community mapping projects and learned how Google mapping technologies can support the mapping of cultural and natural resources for better informed decision-making with regard to indigenous lands.</font></span></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></font></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The workshop also received a good deal of press coverage in British Columbia, including a</span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/cbcvictoria/mapping-first-nations-traditional-territories" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CBC radio broadcast</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, a</span><a href="http://ici.radio-canada.ca/widgets/mediaconsole/medianet/7148083#%23" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">TV broadcast interview</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> on the francophone Radio Canada, as well as print articles in the</span><a href="http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/workshop-helps-first-nations-map-territories-histories-1.1332042" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Times Colonist</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,</span><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/story.html?id=10146742" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Vancouver Sun</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and</span><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/first-nations-learn-to-map-territories-using-google-earth-1.2746110" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CBC</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><div><img src="cid:ii_hzu3cav60_14856564ee4be8ef" width="400" height="300" class="GH"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div>-- <br></font><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Kevin Steen</font></b></div><div style="font-size:small"><a href="mailto:steen.kevin@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">steen.kevin@gmail.com</font></a></div></div></div>
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