Saginaw Chippewa – Weaving our Stories

July 1st, 2019 - June 30th, 2020 | PROJECT

The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan's Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways will organize a four-day educational symposium to build a better understanding of Native American culture and history. The project will begin with a forum to foster dialogue on the 200th anniversary of the Treaty of Saginaw. The forum will discuss the treaty's impact on sovereignty and relationships between natives and non-natives and the loss of continuity of language, culture, and the practice of traditional art forms. The forum will include representatives from the 25 tribes whose children attended the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School. The representatives will share cultural stories and traditional methods through birch bark, black ash, elm and sweet grass basket making. The symposium will conclude on Michigan Indian Day with science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) activities for area students.

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Team Members

Shannon Martin, Principal Investigator, Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways

Funders

Funding Source: IMLS
Funding Program: Inspire! Grants for Small Museums
Award Number: MA-15-19-0112-19
Funding Amount: $34,303

Tags

Access and Inclusion: Ethnic | Racial | Indigenous and Tribal Communities
Audience: Elementary School Children (6-10) | General Public | Middle School Children (11-13) | Museum | ISE Professionals | Youth | Teen (up to 17)
Discipline: Art | music | theater | Ecology | forestry | agriculture | General STEM | History | policy | law
Resource Type: Project Descriptions
Environment Type: Community Outreach Programs | Public Programs