Image courtesy of University of Toronto. Photo by David Ball. Editorial note: This post was originally published in the GRASAC Newsletter in June 2025 and is republished here for broader access. We are incredibly proud to share that GRASAC member Professor John Borrows, the inaugural ...
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Research in Progress: GRASAC Members Lead Workshop Revisiting 1858 Indigenous Diplomatic Council
Editorial note: This post was originally published in the GRASAC Newsletter in May 2025 and is republished here for broader access. From Heidi Bohaker GRASAC members Alan Corbiere and Chandra Murdoch led a special research workshop May 1-2 titled “To Find our Wampum all White” which has brought ...
Passing the Torch for GRASAC’s Communications
From Bradley Clements I took on the leading role for GRASAC's communications in September 2019, and launched the monthly GRASAC newsletter in March 2020. It has been amazing to see this newsletter and its audience grow over those years. Thank you so much to those of you who have contributed to ...
GRASAC Connects with the Baraga Collection at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana, Slovenia
By Amanda McLeod GRASAC researchers recently visited many Great Lakes relatives at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The team included seasoned researchers Maureen Matthews, Pamela Klassen, Cary Miller, and Amanda McLeod, as well as Charles Feaver who did the ...
Wampum, Partnership, and the Bank of Canada Museum
From Dana Murray In May 2024, a gathering was hosted by the Bank of Canada Museum with elders from Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabe First Nation to welcome the wampum belts in the National Currency Collection back to Algonquin territory after their loan to the McCord-Museum in Montreal for ...