The scope of work for our project will be the collection and review of subsistence harvesting data, the actual contaminated sites and drum disposal area are being identified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. We will be incorporating the Corps data along with our data to ascertain possible contamination of the subsistence resources near these sites. Odana WI e95 . The Bad River Chippewa Indian reservation expands over 123,000 acres and is the largest of the Chippewa reservations in Wisconsin. It is from these sloughs that past generations of Chippewa have been able to sustain life through the harvesting of wild rice.
Maps are a powerful way to document traditional land claims.
They can be used for both community resource planning and as evidence in legal disputes over land rights. In mid 1995, we conducted a ten day workshop with the people of Uma Bawang and four other communities. We are now assisting the workshop participants as they teach other indigenous communities in Borneo how to survey, make and use maps as a tool to gain legal recognition of customary-held land. The Blackfeet GIS Department provides a GIS to all Natural Resource Departments and other requesting departments of the Blackfeet Tribe. We are currently working with ArcInfo and ArcView, as well as Trimble GPS products.