Key Terms
This word names the way stories can guide conduct and social direction in a community.
What is governance?
Maracle says maps do not just locate nation states; they also show the boundaries of this.
What is entitlement?
Maracle says stories clarify this.
What is humanity?
Maracle says maps are about this.
What are boundaries?
This city is the main urban place Maracle discusses when she writes about erased Indigenous presence.
Response: What is Vancouver?
What is Vancouver?
This word names the belief that someone has a right to land, power, or access.
What is entitlement?
Maracle says maps do not just locate nation states; they also delineate the boundaries of citizens as opposed to these people.
What are non-citizens?
Maracle compares stories to these because they guide people through life.
What are maps?
Maracle says language helps map the boundaries of this within a society.
What is authority?
Maracle compares the authority of the Mayor of Vancouver to the leader of this First Nation.
What is Musqueam?
This word names the power to make laws or decisions in a place.
What is jurisdiction?
Maracle says that the removal of Indigenous stories from Vancouver’s sociological map is a kind of this.
What is erasure?
Maracle says stories help people locate themselves in this kind of social setting.
What is social milieu?
Maracle says the exclusion of Indigenous people from Canada’s maps reduces them to these within their own nations.
What are visitors?
This lake in the Fraser Valley becomes a key story-law example in the unit.
What is Cultus Lake?
This word names the process of taking back land, rights, or culture.
What is reclamation?
In the section “In and Out of Place in B.C. and the Pacific Northwest,” Maracle says this U.S. state is not actually the Pacific Northwest.
What is Washington State?
Maracle says all good stories contain an element of this.
What is transformation?
Maracle says that when she identifies as an elder to an academic audience, her entitlement to this becomes narrower.
What is belief?
In Maracle’s retelling of Vancouver’s history, toxic waste from the sawmills was deposited beside this kind of site.
What is an Indian reserve?
This word describes the kind of thinking Maracle uses when she emphasizes connection, relationship, and context rather than isolation.
What is relational?
Maracle says the colonial order directed its people to do these three things in the name of a monarch.
What is/are:
*touch the earth
*rename places/people/things
*establish the monarch’s order?
Maracle says our most prized stories help imagine this.
What is the future?
Maracle argues that words like “Canadian” and “immigrant” mark boundaries of this.
What is belonging?
This Nation’s territory includes the lower Fraser River, where you said the Cultus Lake story is grounded.
What is Stó:lō?