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I can't help thinking it's a bit tasteless, and at best arbitrary, to name your maps of New York, a territory brutally taken from the Lenape by the Dutch, after

I can't help thinking it's a bit tasteless, and at best arbitrary, to name your maps of New York, a territory brutally taken from the Lenape by the Dutch, after (unrelated) Native American populations. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieft%27s_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieft%27s_War Edit: I see now it's the color schemes for every map, in which case I'd say it's perhaps a bit tasteless to name the colors of maps of colonial cities after exterminated peoples. Otherwise, really lovely project.

seanlinehan 12y ago
Thanks for your comment. We were on the fence with the naming of the maps, but decided to roll with the potential misunderstanding of what they represent. We were really interested in playing into themes of American exploration for this project. We settled on Project Jefferson as the name of the project, in honor of Jefferson's commissioning of the Louis and Clark expedition. We named our map themes after the tribes found during their journey, in homage to the shared identity of the land.
- mbubb 12y ago
  "We named our map themes after the tribes found during their journey, in homage to the shared identity of the land." - I don't understand what you mean here. For the NYC "Sioux" map you mean that there were Sioux tribes in the NYC area? I am sure that is not true. It doesn't feel like "homage to the shared identity". For me it really strikes falsely
  - mcphage 12y ago
    >> We named our map themes after the tribes found during their journey > For the NYC "Sioux" map you mean that there were Sioux tribes in the NYC area? I don't think Louis & Clark did much exploring in the NYC area...