Image courtesy of Musée McCord Stewart Museum – Roger Aziz From Jonathon Lainey The exhibition Wampum: Beads of Diplomacy (McCord-Stewart Museum, October 2023-March 2024) recently received a second excellence award! The McCord Museum received two awards at the latest Société ...
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Visiting with Great Lakes Relations and the Toledo Museum of Art
Lotunt Honyust visits with a quilled knife sheath. Photograph by Michael Galban. From Cara Krmpotich In late August, a team of Indigenous curators and heritage professionals reconnected with Great Lakes relatives who have been away from their home territories for some 260 years. The collection ...
GRASAC Reconnects with Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
GRASAC team visiting with a strap dress, 1930.822. Young eyes and many hands reading the text inside thimble dangles. Left to right: Amanda McLeod, Sherry Farrell Racette, Suzanne McLeod, Aidan McLeod. Photo courtesy of Rachel Hand, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology From Cara ...
Congratulations and See You Later to Krista Barclay
From Cara Krmpotich & Krista Barclay Photo supplied by Krista Barclay GRASAC member Krista Barclay has recently joined First Peoples Law as a Historian. The firm works exclusively with Indigenous Peoples to defend their inherent and constitutionally protected title, rights and Treaty ...
A Step Toward Reconnection: Researching the Biography of a Pair of Moccasins
From Giuliana Taccone Where did you come from? Who were you made by? How did you get to Italy? These were questions that I first asked myself when I came across pairs of moccasins listed on the GRASAC platform. There are three pairs of moccasins located in the Museum of Anthropology and ...