Image courtesy of University of Toronto. Photo by David Ball. Editorial note: This post was originally published in the GRASAC Newsletter in June 2025 and is republished here for broader access. We are incredibly proud to share that GRASAC member Professor John Borrows, the inaugural ...
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GRASAC Connects with the Baraga Collection at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana, Slovenia
By Amanda McLeod GRASAC researchers recently visited many Great Lakes relatives at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The team included seasoned researchers Maureen Matthews, Pamela Klassen, Cary Miller, and Amanda McLeod, as well as Charles Feaver who did the ...
Wampum, Partnership, and the Bank of Canada Museum
From Dana Murray In May 2024, a gathering was hosted by the Bank of Canada Museum with elders from Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabe First Nation to welcome the wampum belts in the National Currency Collection back to Algonquin territory after their loan to the McCord-Museum in Montreal for ...
Research Trip to Germany and Switzerland
From Samantha Giguere In October, a team of GRASAC Anishinaabe Knowledge Holders, including staff from the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (OCF), travelled to the Städtisches Museum in Braunschweig, Germany and the Nordamerika Native Museum (NONAM) in Zurich, Switzerland to reconnect with Great ...
Visiting with Great Lakes Relations and the Toledo Museum of Art
From Cara Krmpotich In late August, a team of Indigenous curators and heritage professionals reconnected with Great Lakes relatives who have been away from their home territories for some 260 years. The collection has been known as the Farquharson Collection, and was visited in Scotland and ...