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 ...
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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 ...
Traditional Arts of the Anishinaabek Virtual Exhibit
by the Leelanau Historical Society In recognition of Indigenous People’s Day the Leelanau Historical Society launched an addition to their permanent exhibit The Katherine Hall Wheeler, Traditional Anishinaabek Arts Room. The virtual exhibit and video component features Anishinaabek basket ...
Onöndowa’ga:’ Archaeology Digital Collection Goes Live
by Dusti Bridges and Kurt Jordan Materials from two Onöndowa'ga:' archaeological sites, White Springs (circa 1688-1715) and Townley-Read (circa 1715-1754), are now available to the public as a Cornell University Library Digital Collection. This online platform provides information on ...