From Bradley Clements I took on the leading role for GRASAC's communications in September 2019, and launched the monthly GRASAC newsletter in March 2020. It has been amazing to see this newsletter and its audience grow over those years. Thank you so much to those of you who have contributed to ...
GRASAC Connects with the Baraga Collection at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana, Slovenia
By Amanda McLeod GRASAC researchers recently visited many Great Lakes relatives at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The team included seasoned researchers Maureen Matthews, Pamela Klassen, Cary Miller, and Amanda McLeod, as well as Charles Feaver who did the ...
Wampum, Partnership, and the Bank of Canada Museum
From Dana Murray In May 2024, a gathering was hosted by the Bank of Canada Museum with elders from Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabe First Nation to welcome the wampum belts in the National Currency Collection back to Algonquin territory after their loan to the McCord-Museum in Montreal for ...
To Honour and Respect receives Michael M Ames Award for Innovation in Museum Anthropology
GRASAC is excited to share the news that the 2024 Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA) Michael M. Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology is awarded to the exhibition project Mnaajtood ge Mnaadendaan: Miigwewinan Michi Saagiig Kwewag Miinegoowin Gimaans Zhaganaash Aki 1860 / To Honour ...
From the GKS: A Mokuk made by Bamewawagezhikaquay or Jane Susan Ann Schoolcraft
From Joy Kruse Throughout her life she bridged worlds—or moved within one complex world—in culture, language, and heritage; oral and written expression; and in orientation to Earth and Sky.Quote from Anne Holmes about Bamewawagezhikaquay (“She Could Look Into the Heavens," 2021) It is an ...