Editor’s note: This story was updated on Feb. 23.
A new map project between renowned cartographer and MacArthur Fellow Margaret Wickens Pearce and the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine is now complete.
“The Cold in Inuit Nunangat” includes two maps centered on Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homelands in Canada, and an accompanying booklet. The maps juxtapose the ways in which Inuit and their relatives steward the cold on their homelands, while outsiders interfere with that stewardship and Inuit self-determination through carbon emissions and other pollutants.
The maps will be available for purchase beginning Monday, Feb. 23 on the Canadian-American Center’s website.
Pearce will also present the project in the Bangor Room located on the second floor of the Memorial Union at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 24.
