From Samantha Giguere In October, a team of GRASAC Anishinaabe Knowledge Holders, including staff from the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (OCF), travelled to the Städtisches Museum in Braunschweig, Germany and the Nordamerika Native Museum (NONAM) in Zurich, Switzerland to reconnect with Great ...
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From the GKS: A Mokuk made by Bamewawagezhikaquay or Jane Susan Ann Schoolcraft
From Joy Kruse Throughout her life she bridged worlds—or moved within one complex world—in culture, language, and heritage; oral and written expression; and in orientation to Earth and Sky.Quote from Anne Holmes about Bamewawagezhikaquay (“She Could Look Into the Heavens," 2021) It is an ...
To Honour and Respect receives Michael M Ames Award for Innovation in Museum Anthropology
GRASAC is excited to share the news that the 2024 Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA) Michael M. Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology is awarded to the exhibition project Mnaajtood ge Mnaadendaan: Miigwewinan Michi Saagiig Kwewag Miinegoowin Gimaans Zhaganaash Aki 1860 / To Honour ...
Wampum: Beads of Diplomacy Exhibition Receives Excellence Award
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 des musées québécois (SMQ) gala on October 9, including one for ...
Visiting with Great Lakes Relations and the Toledo Museum of Art
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 has been known as the Farquharson Collection, and was visited in Scotland and ...