by Sheila Wheesk, Swampy Cree, Taykwa Tagamou Nation, M.A. Student, Department of History, University of Toronto, and GRASAC Research Assistant, 2020-2021 It may come as a surprise to GRASAC members, but at present the GKS holds 150 records of heritage items labelled Cree. One beautiful example ...
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Interview with Lori Beavis, Executive Director of Centre d’art daphne
Conducted by Olivia White 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 of renowned Odawa-Potawatomi artist Daphne Odjig. The physical space ...
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 reflected ...
From the GKS: A Tuscarora Hat
by Olivia White This beaded hat is in the Lewis Henry Morgan Collection at the Rochester Museum and Science Center in New York. According to the GKS, this hat was made before 1840 and is attributed to the Tuscarora Nation. It is constructed of one piece of velvet gathered at the top, with ...
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory by Brittany Luby
from University of Manitoba Press Dammed explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes ...