We first started out by talking about how indigenous maps are different than those that were drawn by the European. We also looked at how the Spanish relayed heavily on the indigenous maps and there was an aspect of interreliance. The people percieve native as higher because they spoke spanish. However, while getting futher into the class we learned that maps weren’t very useful for the general population unless you yourself wrote the map because you wouldnt understand the concept of just the pictorals and other contexts of that sort. Many people made maps that may have not have been understood at a deeper level.

We then went into the conecept of how hard this article was able to be digested. Some students skimmed it, and majority of the students believed that it was easier to read than Turchi.

After, we went back to going over the maps and we talked about how europeans signed and praised the maps wehreas indigeneous people didn’t give much praise/sign their maps, they just drew them for the general population and that anyone could read them. It lead to the point that maps were a refelction of how people valued their property. We talked about how indigenous people didn’t value labeling and thought that every place was everyones , whereas the Europeans had a culture of how what they did, they wanted it to be theirs. This gave rise to the idea that indigenous people left many blank spaced on thier maps compared to Europeans.

Then we did a class activity on how to get to chipotlet without using a mpa and how now a days we should not rely on the idea of google maps, but rather turn to looking at surroundings and learn how to navigate based on that.

Finally, before the class ended, we looked at two different maps and how they compared in the idea of what their purpose was. One was to guide to one specific place whereas the other showed how to get to many different places from different perspectives: anywhere from one point within the map.