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Maps are culturally relevant texts, representing the worldviews of their creators. Northern indigenous peoples experienced and represented the world and environment in very different, but no less valid, ways to the metropolitan explorers, fur traders, and scientists regularly encountered on their lands from the late eighteenth century onward.
This last Track has never been gone by any Europeans before.1
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Byrne, A. (2013). Worlds of Knowledge, Worlds Apart? Native and Newcomer Geographies. In: Geographies of the Romantic North. Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311320_7
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