by: Joanne Coutts

This map is one of my first explorations of how I might interpret the data I researched and collected on Detroit’s buried waterways to share visualizations of the city. I am very convinced that the way we talk about a place impacts our relationship with it. I created this map to learn the Ojibwe names of some of the Indigenous plants and animals of Teuchash Grondie (The Place of Many Beavers) / Waawiyaataanong / Karontaen / Motown / Midnight / Motorcity / Detroit.