A GRASAC Profile Article Lewis Debassige is a widely respected Anishinaabe Elder from M’Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island (Mnidoo Mnising). He has been a dedicated member of GRASAC since the organization’s earliest days and has participated in a number of GRASAC-led initiatives to ...
GRASAC wins SSHRC Partnership Development Grant
Growing GRASAC: Mobilizing Great Lakes Indigenous Heritage for the 21st Century SSHRC Partnership Development Grant: 2016-2018 ($192,454) Written by Kate Higginson, October 2016 Growing GRASAC PDG Planning Meeting, Woodland Cultural Centre, September 2016. In April 2016, we were ...
Ninaatigwaaboo (Maple Tree Water): An Anishinaabe History of Maple Sugaring
{Above: Ojibwe woman tapping a sugar maple, photograph by Roland Reed (1908). US Library of Congress (cph.3c05740): http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c05740 } Curated by Alan Corbiere The text for this exhibit was first published by Alan Corbiere in ...
Four Views of a Club
A GRASAC Exhibit Curated by Crystal Migwans Four complementary perspectives on a beautiful carved Anishinaabe club, which is now found in the collection of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington (NMAI 3/4643). Purchased by George Heye from W.O. Oldman in ...
Four Views of a Drum
A GRASAC Exhibit Curated by Crystal Migwans Photos courtesy of GRASAC & the British Museum (BM Am.2144) 1) British Military Drum In terms of its form and origin, this drum is best described as a British military drum: This modified British military drum shows how ...