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Research Articles

Visions of time in geospatial ontologies from Indigenous peoples: a case study with the Eastern Cree in Northern Quebec

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Pages 2335-2360 | Received 18 Sep 2018, Accepted 09 Jul 2020, Published online: 22 Jul 2020

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