From Cara Krmpotich GRASAC researchers Alan Ojiig Corbiere and Mikinaak Migwans look at a wampum belt using a light box. Alan Ojiig Corbiere organized a visit to the University of Toronto’s Fisher Rare Book Library to visit with a wampum belt purchased by the Library in 2016. While the ...
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Congratulations to Annette de Stecher, winner of the 2023 Canadian Historical Association Indigenous History Book Prize
From Cara Krmpotich Intricate and skillful Wendat embroidery graces the cover of Wendat Women’s Arts by Annette de Stecher. A warm congratulations to long-time GRASAC researcher Annette de Stecher for her book Wendat Women’s Arts, which was awarded the 2023 Indigenous History Book Award ...
Autour des Wampums: Histoires et Perspectives / Around Wampum: Histories and Perspectives
From Cara Krmpotich & Heidi Bohaker Jonathan Lainey, Nikolaus Stolle and Michael Galban in discussion following the session “The Materiality of Wampum.” Felicitations, Congratulations, to Jonathan Lainey and the team at the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal for a highly successful two-day ...
To Honour and Respect Project Website is Live
From Laura Peers Makak by Polly Soper, Rice Lake Village, 1860. Image courtesy Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III, 2023. We are very pleased to announce that the website is now up for the To Honour and Respect project: please visit us ...
Wampum Papers
From Jonathan Lainey Wampum belt, 71.1878.32.155 © musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, photo Patrick Gries / Valérie Torre Please see the following link to the English version of my most recent paper on the wampum in Quebec in the 19th Century, titled: “Wampum in Quebec from the 19th Century ...