Ethical Reflections on Making the Untitled ṮEṮÁĆES Map

TEMOSEṈ (Charles “Chazz” Elliott), a professional artist and carver working from a family studio in W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip) First Nation, and Kim Shortreed, a settler immigrant artist and scholar, teamed up to challenge Western cartographic traditions through Untitled ṮEṮÁĆES, the first prototype of a haptic map, an art/map concept created by Shortreed during his Ph.D. project. Having completed and shown the map at a local gallery, Kim now reflects on the ethics of creative and cultural ownership, toponymic justice, and cartographic colonization.