Cartographic Poetry

Ted Binnema is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is the author of The Vancouver Island Treaties and the Evolving Principles of Indigenous Title, Enlightened Zeal: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670–1870, and Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains. He co-edited with Gerhard Ens three volumes of The Hudson’s Bay Company Edmonton House Journals, published by the Historical Society of Alberta. He has also published scholarly articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics. His fascination with and research into Blackfoot and Gros Ventre maps dates to the 1990s.

François Lanoë is Assistant Research Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Research Associate at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. He works on the pre-contact archaeology of Indigenous peoples of northwestern North America, from early settlement during the last Ice Age, to interactions with Euro-American colonial powers. He has worked with tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy since 2013, leading to several publications on Blackfoot archaeology, ancient DNA, and oral history.

Heinz Pyszczyk, retired staff archaeologist with the Government of Alberta, is an adjunct professor at the University of Lethbridge. His primary research interest is Canadian fur trade archaeology and ethnohistory. His most recent publications include: The Last Fort Standing. Fort Vermilion and the Peace River Fur Trade, 1798-1830 and Fifty years of fur trade archaeology in northern Alberta forests: what have we accomplished? He has also published numerous articles in a wide range of topics in Canadian archaeology. As Parkland Archaeologist for the Government of Alberta, he first became interested in the Ki oo cus map in 2010 as it covered parts of his regional mandate.