Partnerships form to repatriate cultural items – Anishinabek News
February 5, 2020
NORTH BAY— A collaboration of First Nations, academics and museums will search for items to repatriate to home territories of the Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850.
Dr. Kirsten Greer, Associate Professor in the Departments of Geography and History and the Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Histories and Geographies and research lead, outlined the details of the project funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) at a research showcase on Jan. 22 at Nipissing University.
Greer gave an overview of the project Reassembling Ontario’s “Near North”: Reparation through university-museum-Indigenous research partnerships.
“First Nation partners, regional, national and international museums and scholars across the humanities, social sciences and geophysical sciences reassemble and repatriate museum collections from the Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850 territory.”
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