From Giuliana Taccone Where did you come from? Who were you made by? How did you get to Italy? These were questions that I first asked myself when I came across pairs of moccasins listed on the GRASAC platform. There are three pairs of moccasins located in the Museum of Anthropology and ...
Research
Nia:wen, Miigwetch, Thank You, Merci to Data Stewards and GKS Research Assistants
From Cara Krmpotich GRASAC’s Knowledge Sharing Platform runs thanks to a lot of “behind-the-scenes” work. This past year, three masters students – Natasha Fares, Shamina Vastani and Connor White – have been revising records to better reflect that the items in the GKS are frequently ...
GKS Spotlight
A little serendipity can go a long way! A recent email from Wendat artist Manon Sioui led Cara Krmpotich to do a search for Wendat relatives in the GKS. Front of mind were Wendat items in the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin that Cara had been updating records for, but then she noticed a pair of ...
Wampum Visit at Fisher Rare Book Library
From Cara Krmpotich 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 provenance in terms of collectors is well documented, the belt’s origin within Indigenous nations is ...
Congratulations to Annette de Stecher, winner of the 2023 Canadian Historical Association Indigenous History Book Prize
From Cara Krmpotich 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 from the Canadian Historical Association. Beautifully illustrated, and robust in its historical, cultural, ...