{"id":273,"date":"2017-12-08T19:11:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T19:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=273"},"modified":"2021-02-18T20:00:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T20:00:54","slug":"shaataahaa-indigenous-methodologies-for-collection-based-research-project-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Shaataahaa: Indigenous Methodologies for Collection Based Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sherry Farrell Racette visiting with an elaborately beaded Shawnee or Delaware bandolier bag (1830-1845) at the Missouri History Museum (item#: 1904.014.0002, online at www.collections.mohistory.org\/resource\/82619).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShaataahaa!\u201d is an Anishinaabe greeting used when you see, with excitement, someone you have not seen for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emerging from personal experiences in collections and conversations circulating among Indigenous scholars and artists \u201cdoing\u201d collections research, this project proposes focused pilot projects for faculty and students at three sites to center Indigenous ways of communicating with and learning from \u201cperson-objects\u201d through deep engagement\/study, linking practices to language, and doing\/making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the spring of 2018, three courses will be taught simultaneously at the Institute of American Indian Arts<\/a> in Santa Fe, the University of Winnipeg<\/a> and the Manitoba Museum<\/a>, and the University of Pennsylvania<\/a>. During this time, students from each site will exchange and share experiences related to their course work and findings. The courses will focus on fostering enhanced relationships between Indigenous artists, scholars and indigenous museum collections in regards to reclamation of artistic knowledge, identifying material traces of sovereignty and building relationships between museums and communities. The courses developed at each site will assist students and project collaborators in exploring pedagogical approaches to facilitate learning from person-objects (visual listening), sensory engagement (sight, touch and smell), knowledge transfer, and exploring Indigenous informed practices and protocols to collections based research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n