Here (PDF):
Ziibiwing Center
Healing through Culture and Art Shaw Collection
Here (Shawl Collection Event Dates):
Ziibiwing Center (SCIT) Issues High School Curriculum on American Indian Boarding School History
Available here. Well worth the read.
Ziibiwing Changing Exhibit Opening Saturday
The Dr. Mike and Linda Shinkle Collection: People of the Turtle
The Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways will premiere a new changing exhibition, “The Dr. Mike and Linda Shinkle Collection: People of the Turtle,” on Saturday, January 30, 2010. The Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony to open the exhibition will take place at 12pm. This exhibition will run January 30 – August 7, 2010.
“The Dr. Mike and Linda Shinkle Collection: People of the Turtle” began as an effort to pay tribute to the Eastern Woodland Indian Tribes at a new cultural center in Muncie, Indiana, called Minnetrista. To honor these great people, the founders of Minnetrista which include Dr. Mike and Linda Shinkle of Morton, Illinois, and several Woodland tribal leaders were assembled in an effort to communicate the culture and history of the first people of the land and their story of survival and growth. This consortium of Eastern Woodland tribes and Nations became known as the Minnetrista Council for Great Lakes Native American Studies (MCGLNAS). Continue reading
LRB Member Recalls Mt. Pleasant Indian School in the 1920s
From the Morning Sun:
John Crampton, member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, still remembers the days when he attended the Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial School at age 6.
Eighty-three years later, as he walked the grounds of the former school, he reminisced about the fond memories of his childhood.
“That was the big boy’s dormitory,” Crampton said. “Over there was a deer pen.
“The buildings for the teachers and staff was over there.”
The Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial School was in operation from 1893 to 1933.
An excerpt from an Oct. 1, 1889 report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shows what the U.S. government’s mindset was like at the time: “The Indians must conform to the ‘white man’s ways,’ peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must,” the report stated.
Detroit News: Tribe Demands Remains from U-M
From the Detroit News:
ANN ARBOR — On the wooden shelves of a University of Michigan laboratory, thousands of relics — ceramic bowls, copper beads and stone and bone tools — await the careful eyes of researchers.
The ancient burial artifacts provide rich details about vibrant cultures that hunted, fished, raised crops and traded goods throughout the Great Lakes and beyond, archaeologists say.
But a group of Native Americans led by the Saginaw Chippewa of Mount Pleasant say hundreds of human remains, and the funerary objects buried with them, are being wrongly held and they are asking U-M to return them so they can be reburied.
Turtle Talk 
You must be logged in to post a comment.