Claire Poirier, an IPinCH Fellow from 2013-2014, recently accepted a job with the Royal Alberta Museum as their new Community Engagement Adviser. This position involves working with First Nations to develop various protocols for the sacred and ceremonial materials in the museum's collection.
As a new provincial museum is under construction, exhibits are being developed and collections will have to be moved. Creating repatriation regulations for the Treaty Six area is also part of the job.
Claire has been working with First Nations, sacred sites and sacred artifacts in Alberta and Nova Scotia since 2005. She completed her BA (2002) and MA (2009) degrees in the Social Anthropology department at Dalhousie University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Archaeology at Memorial University (Newfoundland).
Congratulations to Claire!
