{"id":71781,"date":"2020-11-30T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=71781"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:27","slug":"carleton-geomatics-and-cartographic-research-centre-partner-wins-governor-generals-history-award-for-community-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2020\/carleton-geomatics-and-cartographic-research-centre-partner-wins-governor-generals-history-award-for-community-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre Partner Wins Governor General\u2019s History Award for Community Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre Partner Wins Governor General\u2019s History Award for Community Programming\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gcrc.carleton.ca\/index.html\">Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre<\/a> (GCRC) is proud to announce that its partner\u2019s <em>Gwich\u2019in Goonanh\u2019kak Googwandak: The Places and Stories of the Gwich\u2019in <\/em>project has just won the 2020 Governor General\u2019s History Award for Excellence in Community Programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This award-winning partnership with the Gwich\u2019in Tribal Council Department of Cultural Heritage (formerly Gwich\u2019in Social and Cultural Institute) brought Elders, youth, researchers, geographers\/cartographers and designers together to present and celebrate Gwich\u2019in place names and their associated oral history in a variety of ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/atlas.gwichin.ca\/index.html?module=gwichin.module.maps\">series of distinctive place name maps<\/a> for Gwich\u2019in traditional land use areas in the Northwest Territories and Yukon,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/atlas.gwichin.ca\">Cybercartographic Atlas<\/a> with Gwich\u2019in place names and associated oral history and traditional knowledge, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An official recognition of these names by the governments of the Northwest Territories and Yukon for appearance on maps at the territorial, national and international levels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwnhc.ca\/cultural-places\/geographic-names\/gwichin\/\">https:\/\/www.pwnhc.ca\/cultural-places\/geographic-names\/gwichin\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These products are the result of 23 years of research that began in 1992 by the Gwich\u2019in Tribal Council Department of Cultural Heritage working with over 74 Elders and traditional land users in Aklavik, Fort McPherson, Inuvik and Tsiigehtchic in the Northwest Territories. The Atlas is organic as information is still being added. The nomination of place names for official recognition is also ongoing. To date, more than 500 Gwich\u2019in place names have been officially recognized, significantly decolonizing the maps of northwestern Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beginning in 2010, the <em>Gwich\u2019in Goonanh\u2019kak Googwandak<\/em> project sought to share this information and knowledge widely and make it easily accessible. Working with community steering committees composed of Elders and traditional land users, in partnership with the GCRC, the project group created a Gwich\u2019in Cybercartographic Atlas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GCRC has been working with dozens of communities across Canada and around the world using their innovative <a href=\"https:\/\/nunaliit.org\">Nunaliit<\/a> atlas software framework for community mapping projects. This technology is being used in the <em>Gwich\u2019in Goonanh\u2019kak Googwandak<\/em> project with enhancements co-created with the Gwich&#8217;in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur collaboration with Carleton University was particularly beneficial to both parties as it helped to make our Elders\u2019 knowledge more readily accessible, and supported the university to grow and share their open source atlas framework more widely. This has resulted in the development of dozens of other Atlases from Alaska to South America to Asia,\u201d said Sharon Snowshoe, director of the Gwich\u2019in Tribal Council Department of Cultural Heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe GCRC has worked in creating innovative cybercartographic atlases with Indigenous groups and organizations for nearly two decades,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/people\/taylor-fraser\/\">Fraser Taylor<\/a>, director of GCRC. \u201cWe are very pleased to see this important recognition of one of our long-standing partners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lasting impact of this project will be wide-ranging, helping to raise awareness and appreciation of Gwich\u2019in place names at the local, national and international and is seen by the Gwich\u2019in project team as one way to advance the process of reconciliation in our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<br>\n<\/strong>Steven Reid<br>\nMedia Relations Officer<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-265-6613<br>\n<a href=\"mailto:Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca\">Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow us on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\nCOVID 19 Updates:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/\">https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University\u2019s Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC) is proud to announce that its partner\u2019s Gwich\u2019in Goonanh\u2019kak Googwandak: The Places and Stories of the Gwich\u2019in project has just won the 2020 Governor General\u2019s History Award for Excellence in Community Programming. 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