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The video by Loften and Vaughan-Lee follows the story of Jim Enote, a Zuni farmer who is creating unique maps that prioritizes story-telling and common ancestry. Enote is pushing our standard definition of what constitutes a map by incorporating personal identities into the map. Rather than viewing the area from an aerial 2D perspective, his maps focus on invoking the sense of place through depictions of landscape and areas noteworthy to the Zuni people. I agree with KS’s skepticism in their post about whether Enote’s work truly classified as a map. While Enote’s work depicts important landscape and features of the Zuni area, it has more value in its ability to envoke feelings and histories for the Zuni people rather than being an accurate representation of the area. While not practical, Enote’s maps allow him to tell a different story and make a statement that you can’t with classically structured maps.