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When four Huron-Wendat leaders from the Québec City area traveled to England in 1824 to assert their land rights to British monarch King George IV,...
The strategic plan through 2027 has four pillars: “to tell Montreal’s stories, bear witness, stimulate and engage.”
Hundreds of years after being given to European nations by Indigenous peoples from across the northeast, a collection of wampum belts have returned to Canada for the first time.Forty wampum belts dating back to the 17th century that are currently held in public and private institutions across Europe, Quebec, and Ontario are part of a new exhibition, Wampum: Beads of Diplomacy, at Montreal's McCord Stewart Museum.It's a historic moment for Jonathan Lainey, curator of Indigenous cultures at McCord
The three sections of the permanent collection are called Knowledge, Trauma and Resilience.
Native American belts made of wampum shells have long fulfilled a diplomatic purpose, writes Ruth B. Phillips – and as such are very much a living art