ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of some of these efforts and how, by drawing on indigenous expressions and experiences, different ways of mapmaking can capture the intricacies of movement and memory within and across circumpolar landscapes, icescapes and water. Indigenous expressions and articulations of attachment and belonging to landscape and place offer unique perspectives on locality and the connections between place, identity and culture in the Arctic. Indigenous peoples of the Arctic have long been recognized as being particularly able mapmakers. Critical cartography is the "one-two punch of new mapping practices and theoretical critique" and has become necessary to take the power held within maps and return it back to the hands of those directed by them. The project of indigenous counter-mapping is part of a wider trend in critical cartography that is based on promoting new ways of engaging with maps and mapmaking.
