by Jonathan Lainey Charles Joseph Hullmandel, hand-coloured lithograph after Edward Chatfield, Nicholas Vincent Tsawenhohi, 1825. Gift of Mrs Walter Stewart, McCord Museum, M20855. Telling the long history and biography of objects’ lives reveals the need to acknowledge the role of material ...
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GRASAC Hack-A-Thon First Pilot
by Irmarie Fraticelli-Rodríguez From Friday, January 22 to Saturday, January 23, a small number of GRASAC members and research assistants took part in a trial run of a "data-a-athon" as a pilot idea for a data science hackathon. Participants from different ...
From the GKS: A Maskekowiyiniwak (Swampy Cree) Doll
by Sheila Wheesk, Swampy Cree, Taykwa Tagamou Nation, M.A. Student, Department of History, University of Toronto, and GRASAC Research Assistant, 2020-2021 Catalogue/Accession Number or Reference: grasac_3398, GKS ID: 77 It may come as a surprise to GRASAC members, but at present the ...
Interview with Lori Beavis, Executive Director of Centre d’art daphne
Conducted by Olivia White https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdAs_-nxJKY&ab_channel=GRASAC I spoke with Lori Beavis about the origins and goals of Centre d'art daphne, Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal’s first Indigenously determined contemporary artist-run centre. The Centre is named in honour ...
Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance by Heidi Bohaker
from University of Toronto Press Combining socio-legal and ethnohistorical studies, this book presents the history of doodem, or clan identification markings, left by Anishinaabe on treaties and other legal documents from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. These doodems ...