The Indianization of Globalization
This map merges English, Spanish, and French to produce a new cartography based on the meanings of the words “Indian” and “Indigenous.” Providing the foundation for our current processes of globalization, the map returns to the image of extreme ignorance and confusion experienced by Europeans during their arrival on the American Continent. As a future or contemporary world order implied by the renaming of the continents, however, the map also registers the epic growth of cultural and political power accomplished by the very populations that have been accurately and mistakenly defined by the idea of the “Indian” and the “Indigenous.”