by Chantelle Perreault As an intern for GRASAC, I have been working as part of a team with fellow interns Olivia White and Kelisha Peters, under the supervision of Dr. Cara Krmpotich. As part of our work, we have been looking into methods of re-presenting the online GKS database in order to ...
Newsletter Stories
From the GKS: A Haudenosaunee Chatelaine Bag
by Autumn Epple Within the collection at the National Museums Scotland is a magnificent example of Haudenosaunee beadwork from the Victorian era. The GKS has a fair amount of information on this chatelaine bag (a formal waist bag worn by 19th century women), which would have been sold to ...
Alan Ojiig Corbiere wins Barbara Godard Prize
from York University Every year, the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies awards the Barbara Godard Prize for the best graduate dissertation for outstanding works that advance our knowledge of Canada. For the 2019-20 academic year, the award went to M'Chigeeng historian and researcher Alan Ojiig ...
All eyes on Mi’kma’ki as Mi’kmaq fight for recognition of moderate livelihood fisheries
by Alexander Ross The past two months have seen significant violence directed toward Mi’kmaw fishers in Sipekne’katik. This has included threats, vandalism of lobster traps and boats, and even an assault against Sipekne’katik chief Michael Sack. A lobster compound in Middle West Pubnico was ...
From the GKS: An Anishinaabe Child’s Tikinaagan and Doll
by Bradley Clements September 30 is Orange Shirt Day, an event to remember the children who were taken to Indian residential and boarding schools for over 120 years throughout the Great Lakes region and across Turtle Island. This day honours the Survivors, the families, and every child who ...