from Canada’s History The McCord Stewart Museum’s new permanent exhibition, Indigenous Voices of Today: Knowledge, Trauma, Resilience, invites the public to connect with eleven Indigenous nations in Quebec. Visitors take the titular three-part journey, which begins by shedding light on ...
Exhibits
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 ...
Four Views of a Knife & Sheath
A GRASAC Exhibit Curated by Crystal Migwans (2013) This 18th-century Great Lakes knife and sheath are now in the collection of the Canadian Museum of History: III-X-238 and III-X-239. (Iron, brass, tortoise shell, beading, quillwork, deer hide, ...