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 ...
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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 ...
GRASAC Reconnects with Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
From Cara Krmpotich GRASAC researchers Maureen Matthews and Suzanne McLeod organized a double panel session for the Royal Anthropological Institute’s conference in June 2024. The conference theme was Anthropology and Education, and Maureen and Suzanne convened a group of scholars to speak to ...
Congratulations and See You Later to Krista Barclay
From Cara Krmpotich & 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 rights. Krista will be connected with ...