By Heather George Haudenosaunee Raised Beadwork from the collection of the Seneca Iroquois National Museum at the Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center. Photo — Heather George On October 3rd, 1898, 44 women from Kahnawake wrote to the US Congress reminding them of the right of Haudenosaunee people to ...
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Brief History of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫʔ People in the Cayuga Lake Region Published
by Kurt Jordan Kurt Jordan, currently the Director of Cornell’s American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program and a GRASAC Steering Committee member, recently published a short, public-facing book titled The Gayogo̱hó:nǫʔ People in the Cayuga Lake Region. Jordan consulted with ...
Former GRASAC RA’s Research Questions the Provenance of the Vatican’s Indigenous Collection
from CBC News Image from CBC News Gloria Bell, an assistant professor of art history at McGill University, has been researching the Vatican's collection of Indigenous cultural belongings and artwork for nearly a decade. She is challenging the Vatican's official account of how it acquired ...
Looking to 2022
by Bradley Clements GRASAC is doing exciting things in 2022! Projects that got underway in 2021 will continue to be developed, many with the aim of completion in the coming year. The GRASAC Knowledge Sharing System (GKS) is transitioning to an updated platform as the existing one is phased ...
Help Improve the GKS
by Richard Laurin Bonjour, Hello, Tansi, Aniin, She:kon, In August 2021, Dr Cara Krmpotich wrote a post briefly outlining the current push to transform the GKS database into a more public-focused and inviting space to introduce the incredible knowledge and heritage items hosted on ...