{"id":733,"date":"2020-03-01T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=733"},"modified":"2020-12-07T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:20:22","slug":"professor-heather-howard-wins-national-grant-for-a-new-digital-portal-for-waganakising-porcupine-quillwork-and-other-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"Professor Heather Howard wins national grant for a new digital portal for Waganakising porcupine quillwork and other heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>by the Whiting Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whiting.org\/content\/heather-howard\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Howard<\/a>, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University, will\u00a0receive\u00a0a\u00a0$50,000\u00a0Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship\u00a0to support the\u00a0collaborative development of a digital portal for the heritage of the\u00a0Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa (LTBB) in Northern Michigan, traditionally known as the Waganakising Odawak. Building on digitization work undertaken by the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) and led by Tribal members, the new portal will initially focus on porcupine quillwork and its meanings, supporting the perpetuation of this art for a new generation of Tribal members and opening a window onto Tribal ways of life for non-Indigenous neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by the Whiting Foundation Heather Howard, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University, will\u00a0receive\u00a0a\u00a0$50,000\u00a0Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship\u00a0to support the\u00a0collaborative development of a digital portal for the heritage of the\u00a0Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa (LTBB) in Northern Michigan, traditionally known as the Waganakising Odawak. Building on digitization work undertaken by the Great Lakes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=733\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-newsletter-stories","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}