Abstract
The Self Determined Atlas Project of 10 Amazonian Indigenous Nations
Track: Tribal/Indigenous GIS programs
Author(s): Richard Resl, Nanki Wampankit, Domingo Ankuash
10 years ago, AmazonGISnet indigenous user group gathered to build a regional resource platform to share relevant knowledge of their territories in order to create a self-determined spatial expression of their Amazonian identity. Along the line of this network initiative legal, environmental, social, cultural and political aspects were treated within workgroups of young native technicians guided by their leaders of each nation. Fighting for their rights, cultural survival and sustainability of their concepts of living within the fragile rainforests of the Amazonian Lowlands of Ecuador, these 10 nations decided to create their own ATLAS PROJECT aimed at giving a living testimony of this community based survey and mapping experience in 5 native languages carrying the signature of both technical and thematic knowledge of the local habitants. The Atlas now builds the basis for a collaborative regional autonomous planning and zoning approach of more than one million hectares of inhabited rainforest.
Richard Resl
USFQ, UNIGIS, AMAZONGISNET
Casilla 17-22-20205
Quito , Pichincha 20205
Ecuador
Phone: 593-95072134
E-mail: amazongisnet@gmail.com
Nanki Wampankit
AmazonGISnet
Union Base, CONFENIAE
Puyo , Pastaza 20205
Ecuador
Phone: 593-99680110
E-mail: nanki82@hotmail.com
Domingo Ankuash
AmazonGISnet
Union Base, CONFENIAE
Puyo , Pastaza 20205
Ecuador
Phone: 593-92075815
E-mail: domingoankuash11@yahoo.es