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 ...
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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 ...
Preparing for a Public GKS
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 ...
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 ...