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The Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways interprets ezhibiigaadek asin and presents recreations of ancestors carving the teachings. 

Following the World Archaeological Congress' "Indigenous People and Museums: Unravelling the Tensions" InterCongress in Indianapolis, members of the IPinCH team were invited to the Ziibiwing cultural center in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. They were given the honour of viewing the nearby heritage site ezhibiigaadek asin ("Written on Stone"), otherwise known as the Sanilac Petroglyphs. This important location is the focus of the IPinCH community-based initiative co-developed by Shannon Martin and William Johnson, director and curator, respectively, of the Ziibiwing Center, and Sonya Atalay, Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Indiana University, and Anishinabe Ojibwe from Michigan. 

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IPinCH Community-Based Heritage Research Workshop participants in front of poles across from the Chief Joe Mathias Community Centre

The Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation) welcomed Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants from across North America and Japan to their Elder’s Centre and Chief Joe Mathias Community Centre, nestled at the foot of Grouse Mountain near Vancouver, for our IPinCH Community-Based Heritage Research Workshop in October, 2010. From the welcoming remarks and prayer given by Hereditary Chief Janice George to the closing by Elder Audrey Rivers, refreshments flowed and all our conference needs were met. Skwxwú7mesh know how to treat guests.More »

IPinCH Cultural Tourism Working Group Co-chair Lena Mortensen and Project Director George Nicholas were sparked to write an article for Anthropology News, November 2010, by the opening of a “traditional First Nations Village” operated for tourists by the Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia in a municipal park in Vancouver, BC, Canada.More »

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Dr. Amy Roberts, a lecturer from the Flinders University Archaeology Department (South Australia) has recently joined the IPinCH project as a Scholar Associate. Amy is a multi-disciplinary researcher with training and experience in the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. More »

The IPinCH Steering Committee is pleased to announce our latest case study, developed by Brian Noble (Dalhousie University and IPinCH Co-investigator) and Arthur Manuel (Secwepemcul’w, INET Spokesperson).  

Their abstract outlines their research approach and goals:More »

‘Beyond the Tangible: Repatriation of Cultural Heritage, Bioarchaeological Data, and Intellectual Property’ can be found in the special section on repatriation in the March 2010 issue of Anthropology News. IPinCH team members George Nicholas, John Welch, Alan Goodman and Randall McGuire discuss repatriation of intangible aspects of cultural heritage.More »

“I woke up very early this morning. I’m all excited,” said Inuvialuit elder Albert Elias about his trip to the Smithsonian Institution to re-discover Inuvialuit artifacts collected from his ancestors in the mid-1800s.More »

Last spring IPinCH Project Director George Nicholas was invited to prepare a piece on IP in heritage management for the “Resources” section of the journal Heritage Management. George subsequently invited members of the Steering Committee and Working Group Co-chairs to join him in that endeavor.More »

Challenges and Opportunities Relating to Appropriation, Information Access, Bioarchaeology & Cultural Tourism, HM (2:2)