Imperial Eyes was built and designed by two settlers of European descent. Asa Wilder is a third generation American who grew up in traditional Osage territory. Ariel Hahn is a fifth generation Arizonan and descendant of colonial-era settlers who was raised in traditional Tohono O’odham territory. We both currently reside in traditional Tongva territory and are interested in interrogating our participation, both familial and personal, in settler colonialism.
We are also second-year graduate students in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA obtaining masters degrees in Library and Information Science.
asawilder@gmail.com / arielhahn@ucla.edu
@ warmjetztzeit / @ aireuhl
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The image to the left of this description is a page from Treaty with the Apache, 1852. The document is in the public domain and has been digitized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library.
Imperial Eyes is not the first digital or archival project to analyze colonial maps or look at the history of indigenous land rights within the United States, nor will it be the last project to do such work. With that, we've included a brief list of some other things to explore if you want to do further research or engage more deeply with these issues and questions.
+Native Land, an indigenous territory mapping project from Victor G. Temprano.
+ Native Land's Teacher Resources, which asks questions like: how does the modern idea of a ‘nation-state’ relate to Indigenous nations?
+ An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, a book by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
+ Whose.land, an educational project that pairs the Native Land mapping project with territory acknowledgement guides and videos.
+ Records of Rights, a visual and descriptive timeline of the history of Native American Rights in the United States from the National Archives.
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