From Laura Peers Makak by Catherine Muskrat, 1860. RCIN84339. Image courtesy Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III, 2023. The To Honour and Respect exhibit of 13 quilled birchbark makakoon, made in 1860 at Hiawatha First Nation as gifts for the Prince of Wales, ...
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GRASAC Awarded $280,000 in SSHRC Insight Grant Competition
From Cara Krmpotich Anishinaabe bandolier bag, image from NONAM. It’s official! A team of GRASAC researchers has been awarded $280,000 in this year’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant competition. Over the next four years, the team will be ...
Mourning the Passing of Robbie Robertson
From the Woodland Cultural Centre A display about Robbie Robertson at the Woodland Cultural Centre. Image from the Woodland Cultural Centre. Robbie Robertson’s career was influenced by early trips with his mother Rosemarie to visit family in Six Nations of the Grand River – a community known ...
New Document Calls for Equitable Partnership between Museums and Native Communities
From Elysia Poon, School for Advanced Research SMNAC Core Group meeting in 2019. Photo by Elysia Poon, courtesy School for Advanced Research. On July 25, the School for Advanced Research (SAR) and the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) announced the release of the Standards for Museums with ...
To Honour and Respect Exhibition Catalogue
From Laura Peers Laura Peers and Lori Beavis are very pleased to announce that the catalogue for the To Honour and Respect exhibition is available from Happenstance Books, Lakefield Ontario, for $20 + shipping. Contact information for ...