Analyzing entangled territorialities and Indigenous use of maps: Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok (Quebec, Canada) dynamics of territorial negotiations, frictions, and creativity Benoit Éthier École d'études autochtones/School of Indigenous Studies, Université du Québec en Abitibi‐Témiscamingue Key Messages • This paper is about the entanglement of Indigenous and state's land tenures in a Canadian context. • The study highlights the relevance of analyzing entangled territorialities to better understand the power relationships within Indigenous forestland. • The study demonstrates the complex articulations between domination and resistance dynamics in Indigenous mapping in a territorial negotiation process. This paper highlights the relevance of analyzing entangled territorialities and Indigenous use of maps in order to better understand what Lévy describes in terms of “spatial capital”—the socio‐economic dynamics and power relationships maintained and negotiated between the stakeholders interacting within the Indigenous forestland. More specifically, it discusses the entanglement dynamics of land tenures coexisting today within Nitaskinan, the ancestral territory claimed by the Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok. Within Nitaskinan, members of the First Nation negotiate the continuity of their practices, occupation, and use of ancestral hunting territories with state institutions, logging companies, and non‐Indigenous members of civil society who have interests in the land resources. All these stakeholders implement different territorial regimes that interact and sometimes conflict. Based on concrete ethnographic examples, the analysis presented here focuses on the compromises, frictions, resistance, and creativity that are part of territorial coexistence between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people. Keywords: entangled territorialities, Indigenous land tenure, Indigenous forestland, spatial capital, Atikamekw Nehirowisiw Territorialités enchevêtrées et utilisation des cartes par les Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok (Québec, Canada) pendant les négociations territoriales Cet article souligne la pertinence d'analyser les territorialités enchevêtrées et l'utilisation des cartes par les autochtones afin de mieux comprendre ce que Lévy décrit en termes de « capital spatial », c'est‐à‐dire la dynamique socioéconomique et les relations de pouvoir maintenues et négociées entre les acteurs qui interagissent au sein d'univers forestiers autochtones. Plus spécifiquement, le texte traite de la dynamique d'enchevêtrement des régimes fonciers qui coexistent aujourd'hui au sein du Nitaskinan, le territoire ancestral The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien 2020, 1–17 DOI: 10.1111/cag.12603 © 2020 Canadian Association of Geographers / L'Association canadienne des géographes Correspondence to / Adresse de correspondance: Benoit Éthier, École d'études autochtones/School of Indigenous Studies, Université du Québec en Abitibi‐Témiscamingue, 675, 1ere Avenue, Val‐d'Or, QC J9P 1Y3. Email/Courriel: benoit.ethier@uqat.ca