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Where We Have Researched

Since 2006, large and small teams of GRASAC researchers have had the privilege of travelling to study thousands of wonderful Great Lakes items, belongings and beings at a number of cultural repositories around the world. Below is a list of some of the institutions GRASAC research teams have visited. We are grateful to all of the wonderful staff members at these institutions who have facilitated these research trips!

Partner Institutions

GRASAC currently has five principle partner institutions (see below). Over the years GRASAC researchers have also been honoured to work with a number of excellent people and fascinating collections at a host of other cultural centres, museums, art galleries and archives which house Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat cultural materials.

Woodland Cultural Centre

Protecting, promoting & presenting the history, language and cultural heritage of the Anishinaabe and Onkwehon:we people

Ojibwe Cultural Foundation

Preserving & revitalizing the culture of the Anishinaabe people of Mnidoo Mnising (Manitoulin Island)

Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art & Culture – Carleton University

A vibrant interdisciplinary teaching and learning environment

American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program – Cornell University

Providing American Indian & Indigenous Studies courses and other educational & cultural opportunities to Native students

Department of History – University of Toronto

Interpreting the past and probing its significance through research, education & life-long learning

Archives

Naomi Recollet, Crystal Migwans, Lance Heidig, David Penney, and Heidi Bohaker examine an 18th-century Treaty in the Cornell University Rare Books and Manuscript Collections (2016).
Archives of OntarioToronto, Canadahttp://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/index.aspx
Centre for Kentish StudiesKent, United Kingdomhttp://www.kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/history-and-heritage/kent-archives
Detroit Public LibraryDetroit, United Stateshttp://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/
Library and Archives CanadaOttawa, Canadahttp://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Pages/home.aspx
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural HistoryWashington, United Stateshttp://anthropology.si.edu/naa/home/naahome.html
National Archives and Records AdministrationMaryland, United Stateshttps://www.archives.gov/
New York State ArchivesBuffalo, United Stateshttp://www.archives.nysed.gov/
United Church ArchivesToronto, Canadahttp://www.united-church.ca/leadership/church-administration/united-church-canada-archives
The National Archives, Public Record OfficeRichmond, United Kingdomhttp://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Detail of Delaware Peace Treaty, signed at Johnson House, 1765. Dodems and seals of Turtle Heart Als. Agasqua and Weeweenoaghwah. Cornell University Rare Books & Manuscripts Collection.

Cultural Centres & Art Galleries

GRASAC Research team at the Detroit Institute of Arts: Darlene Johnston, Alan Corbiere, David Penney, Adriana Greci Green, Crystal Migwans (2011).
Akwesasne Cultural CentreHogansburg, United Stateshttp://akwesasneculturalcenter.org/
Blair CastlePerthshire, United Kingdomhttp://blair-castle.co.uk/
Curve Lake Cultural CentreCurve Lake First Nation, Canadahttp://www.curvelakeculturalcentre.ca
Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First NationWiarton, Canadahttps://www.nawash.ca/
Chippewas of Rama First NationRama, Canadahttp://www.mnjikaning.ca/Pages/default.aspx
Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural CenterKahnawake Mohawk Nationhttp://korkahnawake.org/
National Gallery of CanadaOttawa, Canadahttps://www.gallery.ca/
Native North American Travelling CollegeAkwesasne Mohawk Nationhttp://nnatc.org
Native Canadian Centre of TorontoToronto, Canadahttp://ncct.on.ca/
Ojibwe Cultural FoundationM’Chigeeng, Canadahttps://ojibwe-cultural-foundation.myshopify.com/
William Jamieson Ancient and Tribal ArtToronto, Canada 
Woodland Cultural CentreBrantford, Canadahttp://www.woodland-centre.on.ca/
Alan Corbiere (and Paula Whitlow) with a beautiful birchbark model canoe, in the collections of the Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève (2013).

Museums

GRASAC researchers at the British Museum’s Orsman Road Stores in 2007: Alan Corbiere, Bruce Morito, Robert Storrie, Lindsay Borrows, Heidi Bohaker, Stacey Loyer, Janis Monture, Cory Willmott, Laura Peers, Darlene Johnston, John Borrows and Ruth Phillips.
Bezoek Museum VolkenkundeLeiden, Netherlandshttps://volkenkunde.nl/
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery American Philosophical SocietyBristol, United Kingdomhttps://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-museum-and-art-gallery/
Canadian Museum of HistoryGatineau, Canadahttp://www.historymuseum.ca/
Cranbrook Institute of ScienceBloomfield Hills, United Stateshttps://science.cranbrook.edu/
Cuming MuseumLondon, United Kingdomhttp://www.southwark.gov.uk/heritage-and-local-history/cuming-museum
Denver Art MuseumDenver, United Stateshttp://denverartmuseum.org/
Detroit Institute of ArtsDetroit, United Stateshttps://www.dia.org/
Ethnological Museum of BerlinBerlin, Germanyhttp://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/ethnologisches-museum/home.html
Fenimore Art MuseumCooperstown, United Stateshttp://www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/
Florida Museum of Natural HistoryGainesville, United Stateshttps://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/
Glasgow Museums Resource CentreGlasgow, United Kingdomhttp://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/gmrc/Pages/default.aspx
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown UniversityProvidence, United Stateshttps://www.brown.edu/research/facilities/haffenreffer-museum/
Historisches und VölkerkundemuseumSt. Gallen, Switzerlandhttp://www.hmsg.ch/
Little Traverse History MuseumPetoskey, United Stateshttp://www.petoskeymuseum.org/
McCord MuseumMontreal, Canadahttp://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/
Missouri History MuseumSt. Louis, United Stateshttps://mohistory.org/
Musée du quai BranlyParis, Francehttp://www.quaibranly.fr/en/
Musée d’Ethnographie de GenèveGeneva, Switzerlandwww.ville-ge.ch/meg/index.php
Musée d’Yverdon et régionYverdon-les-Bains, Switzerlandhttp://www.musee-yverdon-region.ch
Museo di Antropologia Ed EtnologiaFlorence, Italyhttp://museoantropologia.unito.it/index.php/it/
Museo di Scienze Naturali Enrico CaffiBergamo, Italyhttp://www.museoscienzebergamo.it/web/
Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico Luigi PigoriniRoma, Italyhttp://www.pigorini.beniculturali.it/
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de La RochelleLa Rochelle, Francehttp://www.museum-larochelle.fr/
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of CambridgeCambridge, United Kingdomhttp://maa.cam.ac.uk/
National Museum of DenmarkCopenhagen, Denmarkhttp://en.natmus.dk/
National Museum of IrelandDublin, Irelandhttp://www.museum.ie/Home
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian InstitutionWashington, United Stateshttps://naturalhistory.si.edu/
National Museum of the American IndianWashington, United Stateshttp://www.nmai.si.edu/
National Museums ScotlandEdinburgh, United Kingdomhttp://www.nms.ac.uk/
Peabody Essex MuseumSalem, United Stateshttps://www.pem.org/
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and EthnologyCambridge, United Stateshttps://www.peabody.harvard.edu/
Pitt Rivers MuseumOxford, Englandhttps://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/
Pointe du Buisson Musée Québécois D’ArchéologieBeauharnois, Quebechttp://www.pointedubuisson.com/
Pomona College Museum of ArtClaremont, United Stateshttps://www.pomona.edu/museum/
Rochester Museum and Science CenterRochester, United Stateshttp://www.rmsc.org/
Royal Ontario MuseumToronto, Canadahttp://www.rom.on.ca/en
San Diego Museum of ManSan Diego, United Stateshttp://www.museumofman.org/
The British MuseumLondon, United Kingdomhttp://www.britishmuseum.org/
The Hunterian, the University of GlasgowGlasgow, United Kingdomhttp://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/
The Manitoba MuseumWinnipeg, Canadahttps://manitobamuseum.ca/main/
The University Museum, SIUEEdwardsville, United Stateshttps://www.siue.edu/community/museum.shtml
U-M LSA Museum of AnthropologyAnn Arbor, United Stateshttps://lsa.umich.edu/ummaa
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and AnthropologyPhiladelphia, United Stateshttps://www.penn.museum/
Weltmuseum WienVienna, Austriahttps://www.weltmuseumwien.at/en/
Studying the Great Lakes holdings at the musée du quai Branly in Paris: Mnawaate Corbiere, Paula Whitlow, Cory Willmott and Ruth Phillips (2013).

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