Editorial note: This post was originally published in the GRASAC Newsletter in May 2025 and is republished here for broader access. From Heidi Bohaker GRASAC members Alan Corbiere and Chandra Murdoch led a special research workshop May 1-2 titled “To Find our Wampum all White” which has brought ...
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GRASAC Connects with the Baraga Collection at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana, Slovenia
By Amanda McLeod GRASAC researchers recently visited many Great Lakes relatives at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The team included seasoned researchers Maureen Matthews, Pamela Klassen, Cary Miller, and Amanda McLeod, as well as Charles Feaver who did the ...
Research Trip to Germany and Switzerland
From Samantha Giguere In October, a team of GRASAC Anishinaabe Knowledge Holders, including staff from the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (OCF), travelled to the Städtisches Museum in Braunschweig, Germany and the Nordamerika Native Museum (NONAM) in Zurich, Switzerland to reconnect with Great ...
Visiting with Great Lakes Relations and the Toledo Museum of Art
From Cara Krmpotich In late August, a team of Indigenous curators and heritage professionals reconnected with Great Lakes relatives who have been away from their home territories for some 260 years. The collection has been known as the Farquharson Collection, and was visited in Scotland and ...
GRASAC Reconnects with Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
From Cara Krmpotich GRASAC researchers Maureen Matthews and Suzanne McLeod organized a double panel session for the Royal Anthropological Institute’s conference in June 2024. The conference theme was Anthropology and Education, and Maureen and Suzanne convened a group of scholars to speak to ...