Lotunt Honyust visits with a quilled knife sheath. Photograph by Michael Galban. 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 ...
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GRASAC Reconnects with Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
GRASAC team visiting with a strap dress, 1930.822. Young eyes and many hands reading the text inside thimble dangles. Left to right: Amanda McLeod, Sherry Farrell Racette, Suzanne McLeod, Aidan McLeod. Photo courtesy of Rachel Hand, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology From Cara ...
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 ...
Vibrant Online Hub Celebrates Indigenous History, Culture, and Language
From the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Sciences GRASAC researchers have studied Indigenous heritage items from museums around the world, including here at Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin. Image Courtesy of Hannah Turner. The University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and ...
GRASAC Newsletter: The Fourth Anniversary
From Bradley Clements This issue marks the fourth birthday of the GRASAC Newsletter, first sent out on March 1, 2020! Our little newsletter is well into pre-school by now! As we all know, a lot has happened in the meantime, starting with a global pandemic. When we first started work ...