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characterizations of Indigenous mapping expertise, and of “traditional knowledge” more generally, as highly localized, experiential, and unproblematically embedded within static systems of social organization obscure the increasing formalization and movement
of expertise between Indigenous groups. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">During the 1990s, the Gitxsan, an Indigenous people in British Columbia, </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Canada,</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> gained
global attention for using creative and ambitious </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">digital </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">mapping projects to challenge colonial jurisdiction over their lives and landscapes</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">In
the years since, m</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">any of these cartographers and GIS specialists have become estranged from key Gitxsan leaders, accused of enjoying increased professional mobility without remaining “loyal” to the broader communit</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">ies</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> left
indebted by these formative projects.</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> Largely ostracized from mainstream Gitxsan politics and traditional governance </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">institutions</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">, </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">many
of these experts have</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> buil</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">t</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> careers elsewhere, forg</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">ing</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> temporary
institutional bonds, and navigat</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">ing</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> changing demands of technical competence, professional ethics, and Indigenous “authenticity.” </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Drawing
on ethnographic work conducted in, and in between, these ever-changing settings, this talk will explore </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">the unequal costs </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Indigenous experts </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">and
marginal communities must bear to enter networks of </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">technocratic </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">power</span>.</font></div>
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doctoral candidate in the History, Anthropology, and STS program at MIT, </span><span class="il" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Tom</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Ozden-Schilling's research explores the
consequences of institutional change for rural expertise and environmental politics in northern North America. Drawing on ethnographic work with communities of forest ecologists and GIS technicians tracking long-term forest succession changes on the Gitxsan
First Nation's traditional territories in northwest British Columbia, </span><span class="il" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Tom</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> investigates how the design and implementation
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work, </span><span class="il" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Tom</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'s research asks how technoscientific artifacts and archives are changing the dynamics of professional succession,
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