Using First Nations’ narratives and oral histories to inform land-use plans: creating a prototype to aid future planning
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Many Canadian Indigenous communities are planning for their Traditional Territories and resource management areas by reclaiming the land-use planning process. This is being achieved through the application of cultural knowledge and governance traditions to the development of long-term visions for their communities and Traditional Territories. A key component of this reclamation process is use-and-occupancy mapping. While this process is successful at highlighting spatial data it does not highlight non-spatial data such as narratives and oral histories. This practicum uses qualitative analysis to analyze existing First Nations’ land-use plans in order develop a prototype coding framework in which non-spatial data could be drawn out of use-and-occupancy interview data to further inform land-use plans. Findings suggest that analysis completed with the prototype can be used as a direction for further exploring non-spatial data that could be used to further inform First Nations land-use plans and management practices.