- The First Bowman Expedition of the American Geographical Society (AGS), called México Indígena (MI), has renewed the society's commitment to inform the public and governments about foreign geography in support of better policy making. Specifically, AGS proposes sending expeditions to gather geographic information, conduct place-based research, and combat geographic ignorance.
The prototype project, led by a multinational team of Latin Americanist geographers, focuses on the geography of Mexico's indigenous populations and the changes in the cultural landscape and conservation of natural resources resulting from the gargantuan land certification and privatization program called PROCEDE. The MI team documents how this land tenure change will undo the ejido and other communal land ownership forms, turning social property into private.
México Indígena employs participatory research mapping combined with traditional, archival, and humanistic methods to develop a truly participatory GIS (Geographic Information System). Part of this GIS is now online.
Online GIS
Click on the Mexico map below to access the GIS
