from Laura Peers Makak by Polly Soper, Rice Lake, 1860. Royal Collection Trust. © His Majesty King Charles III 2023, http://bit.ly/3Y7bOlo On September 7, 1860, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg gave beautiful quilled birchbark makaks to the Prince of Wales. Thirteen of these remain in the Royal ...
Profile Articles
New GRASAC Member: Introducing Franchesca Hebert-Spence
By Franchesca Hebert-Spence Franchesca Hebert-Spence (image from the Art Gallery of Alberta) My name is Franchesca Hebert-Spence. I am Anishinaabe from Winnipeg and my grandmother Marion Ida Spence was from Sagkeeng, Manitoba. I am a cultural producer with a background in making, curating, ...
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Renews Commitment to GRASAC Network
Wiidankiindiwag display the UM Museum of Natural History (2021); exhibit originally displayed at the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Lifeways and Culture (2019), co-curated by William Johnson, curator and interim director of the Ziibiwing Center, and Carla Sinopoli,emeritus UMMAA curator and director ...
Welcome to New GRASAC RAs
Please join GRASAC in welcoming our newest research assistants (RAs), Aidan Mitchell-Boudreau, Lisa Owl, and Amelia Healey, and returning RAs Sheila Annettee Wheesk and Chantel Tam! Thank you to the new RAs for providing the following introductions: Aidan Mitchell-Boudreau I’m a Métis third ...
Autumn Epple: GRASAC RA Profile
by Autumn EppleMy time spent in the past year as a GRASAC Research Assistant has been one I look back on with fondness. As a graduate student in the History program at the University of Toronto, I saw GRASAC as a way to utilize my passion for public history while working towards my degree. As an RA, ...