Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: List of Figures -- A Narrative Table of Contents -- 1. In the Rincon of the Sierra Juarez -- 2. The Decline and Fall of the Once August American Geographical Society -- 3. "Red Mike" Edson's U.S. Marine Patrols Up Nicaragua's Riacuteo Coco in 1928-1929 and the Development of the Small Wars Manual -- 4. The Birth of Indigenous Mapping In Canada -- 5. Maps, Guns, and Indigenous Peoples -- 6. From Territory to Property: Indigenous Mapping after the Cold War -- 7. Counterinsurgency and the Rise of the "Warrior Scholars" -- 8. The AGS, the Bowman Expeditions, and the Mexico Indiacutegena Project -- Coda: Kill the Insurgent, Save the Man--Indigenous Peoples and Human Terrain -- A Note on Maps -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Maps play an indispensable role in indigenous peoples' efforts to secure land rights in the Americas and beyond. Yet indigenous peoples did not invent participatory mapping techniques on their own; they appropriated them from techniques developed for colonial rule and counterinsurgency campaigns, and refined by anthropologists and geographers. Through a series of historical and contemporary examples from Nicaragua, Canada, and Mexico, this book explores the tension between military applications of participatory mapping and its use for political mobilization and advocacy. The authors analyze the emergence of indigenous territories as spaces defined by a collective way of life--and as a particular kind of battleground"--

"Maps play an indispensable role in indigenous peoples' efforts to secure land rights in the Americas and beyond. Yet indigenous peoples did not invent participatory mapping techniques on their own; they appropriated them from techniques developed for colonial rule and counterinsurgency campaigns, and refined by anthropologists and geographers. Through a series of historical and contemporary examples from Nicaragua, Canada, and Mexico, this book explores the tension between military applications of participatory mapping and its use for political mobilization and advocacy. The authors analyze the emergence of indigenous territories as spaces defined by a collective way of life--and as a particular kind of battleground. Key Words/Subject Areas: cartography, Central America, colonialism, colonizing, counterinsurgency, indigenous mapping, Latin America, Latin American studies, maps, military applications, native lands, Native American studies, North America, participatory mapping, political geography, tribal self-determination Audience: Scholars and students in geography, cartography, Latin American studies, Native American studies, and sociology. "--