From Bradley Clements This issue marks the fourth birthday of the GRASAC Newsletter, first sent out on March 1, 2020! Our little newsletter is well into pre-school by now! As we all know, a lot has happened in the meantime, starting with a global pandemic. When we first started work ...
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From Cara Krmpotich Better late than never! GRASAC is now on Facebook. We invite you to join the group. It’s a space for us to share knowledge about collections, heritage events happening in communities, promote the work of our partners, and to stay connected. Our thanks to Laura Peers who ...
Autour des Wampums: Histoires et Perspectives / Around Wampum: Histories and Perspectives
From Cara Krmpotich & Heidi Bohaker Felicitations, Congratulations, to Jonathan Lainey and the team at the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal for a highly successful two-day symposium on wampum. The international symposium accompanied the exhibition, Wampum: Beads of Diplomacy, ...
To Honour and Respect Project Website is Live
From Laura Peers We are very pleased to announce that the website is now up for the To Honour and Respect project: please visit us at https://www.tohonourandrespect.ca/. To Honour and Respect: Gifts from the Michi Saagiig Women to the Prince of Wales, 1860/ Mnaajtood ge ...
Tracing Material Culture Histories: A Miniature Mokuk Within Networks of Indigenous Resistance
From Cara Krmpotich and Allyson LaForge Tracing Material Culture Histories, is an extended piece on Birchbark items at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum written by Allyson LaForge. LaForge discusses a miniature maple sugaring basket, or mokuk, crafted by a Native woman from the Great Lakes ...