From Cara Krmpotich Participants at the 2023 GRASAC Gathering, outside the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, M'Chigeeng. On June 9-10, 2023, we had our first in-person GRASAC Gathering since our time at Rama First Nation in May 2019. Hosted by our friends and GRASAC co-founders, the Ojibwe Cultural ...
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GRASAC Co-Director Visiting Scholar at University of Michigan
From Cara Krmpotich Andrea Blaser introduces Cara Krmpotich to a black ash basket made by Mrs. Lesage of Garden River (near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario), and collected by Volney Jones in August 1933. UMMAA Catalog number 14006. Photograph courtesy of Kerstin Barndt. During March, GRASAC ...
GRASAC Gathering Call for People, Projects, and Papers: Reconnecting and Renewals
From Carlie Manners The Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) is pleased to invite submissions for our gathering at the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, M'Chigeeng First Nation, Manitoulin Island, from June 9th to 10th, ...
Birdstones Visit at the ROM
from Mina Ali Photo from Royal Ontario Museum On January 18, 2023, the Royal Ontario Museum collaborated with GRASAC to host a virtual tour of the birdstones housed in the Archeology of the Americas collections, with the help of Dr. Tiziana Gallo’s knowledgeable guidance, April Hawkins’s ...
Kay-nah-chi-wah-nung Gathering
By Pamela Klassen, Art Hunter, Krista Barclay, & Teagan de Laronde With eagles circling over the river and the northern lights dancing at night, the Manitou Mounds hosted a gathering of over fifty people, including many GRASAC members, on the weekend of October 1-2. The ...