In “Elemental Cartographies: Restoring Kuleana Mapping at Kauaʻula, Lahaina, Maui,” Candace Fujikane discusses kuleana maps as evidence in land disputes and links these maps to a more elemental understanding of space.

In “Drawing the Line: The Interplay of European and African Mapping Practices in the Carte du Haut-Niger au Golfe de Guinée (1:1,000,000),” Tom Bassett looks at the intertwined nature of European and African mapping practices in a French example from 1890.

In “Living Maps: How Native North Americans Envisioned their World”, Eric Anderson and Carrie Cornelius outline spatial practices of Indigenous North Americans and offer a new interpretive model.

Open Access until the end of October!

In our editorial introduction (free to all to read!) we lay out our decolonial approach and why we won’t define “Indigenous” or “maps and mapping”

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Luckasavitch’s essay, and the article by Eric Anderson and Carrie Cornelius, ‘Living Maps: How Native North Americans Envisioned their World’ are both free to download until the end of October. Don’t miss them!

This first entry is from Christine Luckasavitch (Algonquin Anishinaabekwe and mixed settler ancestry) on her encounters with maps and thoughts on how maps can offer alternative visions when they are made by and with Indigenous Peoples, centring Indigenous knowledges, priorities, and spaces. [...]

This issue also includes the first in a new occasional series, A Life in Maps, an open-format section which will highlight the diversity of ways in which people work with maps. [...]