Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Crown, the Iroquois and Their Neighbours
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Hull
Department Name: History
Abstract
To the Cree of Saskatchewan, he is 'Pisimwa Kamiwohkitahpamikohk', meaning 'The Sun looks at Him in a Good Way'. We know him as Prince Charles. To the Salish of British Columbia, she is 'Mother of all people'. We know her as the Queen. This interdisciplinary project investigates the deep but unexplored connections embodied in these names, between the British Crown and the indigenous peoples of Canada and Northeastern America - one of the oldest diplomatic relationships in the world. It shaped the North America we know today and continues to be 'brightened' and renewed by the Royal family because of its vital role in addressing global challenges linked to the legal, environmental and territorial resurgence of indigenous rights.
2024 marks the 260th anniversary of a pivotal juncture in the first 'special relationship' between America and Britain, a massive and expensive diplomatic pageant known as the Treaty of Niagara, when the Indian 'Magna Carta' confirmed Native rights and sovereignty over vast lands and resources. This project uses this and other treaties as lenses to reveal cultures of diplomatic interaction between the Crown and indigenous peoples that are rooted in the 17th century but of increasing global significance today. The project is the first of its kind to examine this globally significant diplomatic relationship in depth and scope.
An international team of specialists from Hull, Oxford, Queen's University (Canada), and including one of North America's most prominent indigenous scholars from Dartmouth College (US), in partnership with a network that includes Yale, the College of William and Mary (Virginia), King's College London and a group of museums, galleries and archives in the UK, Switzerland, Canada and the US will, over 48 months:
1.connect, examine and interpret a series of unstudied archives and material culture held in the UK, at the Royal Archives at Windsor, the National Archives, and the British Library; in the US, at the Newberry Library (Chicago) and in 13 repositories in the Northeast; and in the Library & Archives, Canada;
2. collaboratively produce new materials and avenues of research using a combination of academic, museum and digital platforms;
3. create new circuits of international collaboration linking academics, the public, policy-makers, indigenous communities and cultural institutions;
4. engage diverse UK audiences in novel ways using an immersive Digital Kinetic Map and a Digital Soundscape that is at the vanguard of innovation in humanities research and museum practice;
5. promote Crown-indigenous diplomacy as a significant intercultural asset, of unrealised value to the heritage and experience economy.
Seven interconnected workstreams undertaken by 5 core applicants and 2 PDRAs will bring texture, clarity and nuance to this under-researched topic and transform the way that we understand the history of the British Crown, its empire, and the contemporary relevance of its intercultural past. To bring this past into dialogue with the present, we will co-create:
- 6 books that illuminate Crown-indigenous relationships and the environment, diplomatic practice, political power, continental perspectives and the historic alliance known as the 'Covenant Chain' that underpins indigenous rights today.
- 2 ground-breaking museum exhibits working with prominent Native artists in residency, 3 interactive public workshops, and a schools outreach programme;
- a total of 4 international conferences and workshops that will bring together academics, policy-makers and the public
- in addition to an immersive Digital Kinetic Map that will animate historic maps from the British Library's collections, and a Digital Soundscape that will re-create diplomatic speeches in the Mohawk language, a suite of curated digital outputs including podcasts, a learning resource, website, and a people-powered research platform that will crowd-source images of objects and the stories of diplomacy.
2024 marks the 260th anniversary of a pivotal juncture in the first 'special relationship' between America and Britain, a massive and expensive diplomatic pageant known as the Treaty of Niagara, when the Indian 'Magna Carta' confirmed Native rights and sovereignty over vast lands and resources. This project uses this and other treaties as lenses to reveal cultures of diplomatic interaction between the Crown and indigenous peoples that are rooted in the 17th century but of increasing global significance today. The project is the first of its kind to examine this globally significant diplomatic relationship in depth and scope.
An international team of specialists from Hull, Oxford, Queen's University (Canada), and including one of North America's most prominent indigenous scholars from Dartmouth College (US), in partnership with a network that includes Yale, the College of William and Mary (Virginia), King's College London and a group of museums, galleries and archives in the UK, Switzerland, Canada and the US will, over 48 months:
1.connect, examine and interpret a series of unstudied archives and material culture held in the UK, at the Royal Archives at Windsor, the National Archives, and the British Library; in the US, at the Newberry Library (Chicago) and in 13 repositories in the Northeast; and in the Library & Archives, Canada;
2. collaboratively produce new materials and avenues of research using a combination of academic, museum and digital platforms;
3. create new circuits of international collaboration linking academics, the public, policy-makers, indigenous communities and cultural institutions;
4. engage diverse UK audiences in novel ways using an immersive Digital Kinetic Map and a Digital Soundscape that is at the vanguard of innovation in humanities research and museum practice;
5. promote Crown-indigenous diplomacy as a significant intercultural asset, of unrealised value to the heritage and experience economy.
Seven interconnected workstreams undertaken by 5 core applicants and 2 PDRAs will bring texture, clarity and nuance to this under-researched topic and transform the way that we understand the history of the British Crown, its empire, and the contemporary relevance of its intercultural past. To bring this past into dialogue with the present, we will co-create:
- 6 books that illuminate Crown-indigenous relationships and the environment, diplomatic practice, political power, continental perspectives and the historic alliance known as the 'Covenant Chain' that underpins indigenous rights today.
- 2 ground-breaking museum exhibits working with prominent Native artists in residency, 3 interactive public workshops, and a schools outreach programme;
- a total of 4 international conferences and workshops that will bring together academics, policy-makers and the public
- in addition to an immersive Digital Kinetic Map that will animate historic maps from the British Library's collections, and a Digital Soundscape that will re-create diplomatic speeches in the Mohawk language, a suite of curated digital outputs including podcasts, a learning resource, website, and a people-powered research platform that will crowd-source images of objects and the stories of diplomacy.
Planned Impact
1) Tourism/Heritage: We will unlock cultural assets especially attractive to North American audiences, the largest tourist market for visits to the UK and 18% of all tourist spend. 95% of Americans seek out heritage sites linked to the Crown and 15% are from New York, the epicentre of Crown-Indian diplomacy. Our project will increase visitor numbers at mid-sized UK heritage institutions, connect the UK's wider heritage infrastructure and using digital technology, create new ways visitors experience UK heritage.
2) Museums, Galleries, & Archive Professionals: By leveraging the expertise of the project's trans-Atlantic network, we will inform policy and practice in the handling of indigenous materials for our UK museum, gallery, and archive partners, and provide a model for how the wider sector can indigenize its practice. Our research, public engagement, innovative digital outputs, and PDRA-led project on Archival Indigeneity will allow them to expand and diversify their visitor base and enhance experience by creating new ways to engage with collections.
3)The Public and Schools: The Crown and Native Americans fascinate the public. We will provide multi-faceted ways for the public to engage with our research as it develops including high-profile exhibitions, indigenous performances, public workshops, podcasts, a British Library-hosted Learning Resource, a people-powered research platform, immersive, interactive digital outputs, and social media channels. A Pen-Pal scheme linking UK and indigenous children, schools workshops led by indigenous artists and teaching materials for KS 3-5 (British History, The American West), will expand UK children's awareness of the cultural diversity of the national past.
4) Artists, Creative & Performing Arts Organisations: Two residencies by indigenous artists and accompanying podcast interviews will engage new UK and global audiences, foster artist interaction with the core research team and create opportunities for collaboration and knowledge-exchange with UK artists and art organisations. We will bring indigenous makers of traditional diplomatic material culture to the UK to participate in project events and lead workshops with schools and the public.
5) Lawyers, Governments, Policymakers: This project will directly benefit and influence how Native and non-Native policy makers, governments, courts, international organisations such as the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and philanthropic organisations such as the DiCaprio Foundation, interpret and apply historic precedents that inform contemporary rights. Our research on the historic basis of treaties will aid the development of an indigenized legal curriculum and impact how government legislation and policy are framed. We will achieve this through workshops at Queen's University that bring together the historical, legal and policy communities and draw upon the networks and expertise of CO-Is Turner (Anishinaabe) and Walters.
6) Indigenous Communities, Activists, Museums & Tribal Groups: Crown-Indigenous diplomacy is of deep legal, cultural, inter-tribal and environmental value to Native peoples seeking to promote and recover knowledge of how historic treaties worked in the past and might serve as models for intercultural relationships in the future. CO-I Turner, our indigenous artist and museum collaborators will facilitate intercultural dialogue with knowledge-keepers in order allow for meaningful Iroquois input into the research as it is designed and developed.
7) The Media: This project's research will generate significant media uptake in national and international markets facilitated by the established global media relationships of the project's investigators, partners and collaborators with PBS, which reaches 200 million, Apple News, Indian Country Today, Native News Online, and the BBC World Service. Our two major digital outputs will be eligible for a series of indigenous and other media prizes and awards.
2) Museums, Galleries, & Archive Professionals: By leveraging the expertise of the project's trans-Atlantic network, we will inform policy and practice in the handling of indigenous materials for our UK museum, gallery, and archive partners, and provide a model for how the wider sector can indigenize its practice. Our research, public engagement, innovative digital outputs, and PDRA-led project on Archival Indigeneity will allow them to expand and diversify their visitor base and enhance experience by creating new ways to engage with collections.
3)The Public and Schools: The Crown and Native Americans fascinate the public. We will provide multi-faceted ways for the public to engage with our research as it develops including high-profile exhibitions, indigenous performances, public workshops, podcasts, a British Library-hosted Learning Resource, a people-powered research platform, immersive, interactive digital outputs, and social media channels. A Pen-Pal scheme linking UK and indigenous children, schools workshops led by indigenous artists and teaching materials for KS 3-5 (British History, The American West), will expand UK children's awareness of the cultural diversity of the national past.
4) Artists, Creative & Performing Arts Organisations: Two residencies by indigenous artists and accompanying podcast interviews will engage new UK and global audiences, foster artist interaction with the core research team and create opportunities for collaboration and knowledge-exchange with UK artists and art organisations. We will bring indigenous makers of traditional diplomatic material culture to the UK to participate in project events and lead workshops with schools and the public.
5) Lawyers, Governments, Policymakers: This project will directly benefit and influence how Native and non-Native policy makers, governments, courts, international organisations such as the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and philanthropic organisations such as the DiCaprio Foundation, interpret and apply historic precedents that inform contemporary rights. Our research on the historic basis of treaties will aid the development of an indigenized legal curriculum and impact how government legislation and policy are framed. We will achieve this through workshops at Queen's University that bring together the historical, legal and policy communities and draw upon the networks and expertise of CO-Is Turner (Anishinaabe) and Walters.
6) Indigenous Communities, Activists, Museums & Tribal Groups: Crown-Indigenous diplomacy is of deep legal, cultural, inter-tribal and environmental value to Native peoples seeking to promote and recover knowledge of how historic treaties worked in the past and might serve as models for intercultural relationships in the future. CO-I Turner, our indigenous artist and museum collaborators will facilitate intercultural dialogue with knowledge-keepers in order allow for meaningful Iroquois input into the research as it is designed and developed.
7) The Media: This project's research will generate significant media uptake in national and international markets facilitated by the established global media relationships of the project's investigators, partners and collaborators with PBS, which reaches 200 million, Apple News, Indian Country Today, Native News Online, and the BBC World Service. Our two major digital outputs will be eligible for a series of indigenous and other media prizes and awards.
Organisations
- University of Hull (Lead Research Organisation)
- Six Nations Indian Museum (Collaboration)
- Singapore Management University (SMU) (Collaboration)
- New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (Collaboration)
- American Museum and Gardens (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- New York State Parks (Project Partner)
- North American Native Museum (Project Partner)
- The Royal Archives (Project Partner)
- Yale University (Project Partner)
Publications
Hamalainen Pekka
(2022)
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
Joy Porter
(2022)
Fighting for Andean resources: extractive industries, cultural politics, and environmental struggles in Peru
in International Affairs
Mark D. Walters
(2023)
Does Quebec Need a Written Constitution?
Mark D. Walters
(2022)
Canadian State Trials, volume 5: 1945-1990
McGrath A
(2021)
The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History
Porter J
(2023)
Chief Thunderwater: An Unexpected Indian in Unexpected Places. By Gerald F. Reid
in The Western Historical Quarterly
Porter Joy
(2023)
To Be Indian: The Life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker
| Title | "Dress for Redress - Exploring Native American Culture Exhibition" at the American Museum & Gardens, Bath |
| Description | The exhibition features a series of spectacular wearable-art pieces, personal artefacts and photography, alongside historical items from the American Museum's collection, the exhibition demonstrates the continuing legacy and profound importance of visual and material culture. This was the first time Celeste Pedri-Spade's work was exhibited in Europe. Dress to Redress focuses on the role of strong women in community, using fashion to explore how stories and experiences of Indigenous and European women both connect and disconnect. Inspired by various designs and materials Pedri-Spade uses her work to remedy the past, revising male-dominated historical narratives, that fail to recognise the powerful role that women have played in their respective communities. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | 1. The exhibition has led to the work of the Indigenous artist associated with the BTCC project being permanently exhibited at the KunstMuseum, Den Haag, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Please see Pedri-Spade towards the bottom of this page: https://www.kunstmuseum.nl/en/visit. This has spread knowledge of the original exhibition at AM&G in Bath and created new links and collaborative opportunities between each museum. 2. The exhibition has attracted interest in it being extended to Zurich in 2024 and in particular a further exhibit, a "Digital Treaty Quilt" by Celeste Pedri-Spade being brought over to NONAM, Zurich, an extension of their associated work screening "Trick or Treaty", a film by Alanis Obomsawin. BTCC has facilitated and a series of Zoom meetings to allow this plan to develop attended by PI Porter. 3. The AM&G exhibition has an associated Public Storyboard encouraging visitors to respond to the Material Kwe exhibition and consider the role of matriarchs within the public's respective familial and community settings. |
| URL | https://americanmuseum.org/exhibitions/ |
| Title | "Understanding Haudenosaunee Wampum Belts in Historic & Contemporary Contexts: A BTCC Film with Lower Cayuga Longhouse Faith Keeper Ken Maracle" |
| Description | A 60-minute educational documentary made by the BTCC AHRC project in collaboration with Haohyoh, Ken Maracle, a faith keeper of the Lower Cayuga Longhouse and a member of the Cayuga Nation, Iroquois Confederacy, Deer Clan. Ken has been making reproduction Wampum Belts for more than 30 years and because of his strong collaborative relationship with eth BTCC team, agreed to make a bespoke wampum friendship belt on-screen for the BTCC extended project team as an instructional tool. The film shows Ken making the special 'Brightening the Covenant Chain' belt on location at Chiefswood Park, New York - a 20-acre site along the Grand River close to Chiefswood National Historic Site, birthplace and childhood home of renowned Mohawk and English poetess E. Pauline Johnson. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The production of this belt underscored and solidified strong collaborative bonds between members of the Haudenosaunee community and the BTCC project team. It also opened up significant new understandings of the historic and contemporary significance of wampum as an intercultural too l and forged new collaborative networks and connections, particularly with Haudenosaunee leadership and GRASAC, a 500 member network - The Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts & Cultures https://grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca/?page_id=70 So far, the belt has been used by the PI as a teaching aid at an associated lecture at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge and by Co - I Prior as a teaching aid within the University of Hull, but it's role is likely to significantly expand as the project continues to expand and advance. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/diplomacy-and-treaties/#friendship-belt |
| Title | 'Beading Across the Royal Proclamation, 1763.' |
| Description | As part of the TSRG BTCC 'Connected Nations: Indigenous Rights and the Royal Proclamation of 1763' Danielle Lussier, with Mary McPherson & Abigail Green, created a beadwork of the Royal Proclamation entitled 'Beading Across the Royal Proclamation, 1763.' The Proclamation has always been considered pivotal, originally as an apparent affirmation of Native rights and latterly as a mechanism that - it is argued - helped to institutionalize the narrowing and erosion of those rights in Canadian public law. Danielle likes to create beadwork that serves as mnemonic devices to translate her written works. She decided as her presentation at the Connected Nations symposium she would add an interesting element to the proceedings - to physically alter and reclaim the visual record/legal material object of the text of the Proclamation. Danielle Lussier Abstract: For centuries, the peoples Indigenous to the lands that are now called Canada operated according to their own philosophical ways of being and forms of governance. These ways of being extended beyond societal relationships between humans to include other-than-human persons and the spirit world. Yet, despite the complex pre-existing forms of governance, the British Crown took it upon itself to regulate Indian affairs. In later years, courts opined that justification for the paternalistic act of sovereign will lies in racist doctrines that granted the Crown sole title over the lands. Through performative artistic action, we seek to problematize the Royal Proclamation of 1763, its subsequent judicial interpretations, and any future interpretation that continues to assume Canada's constitution as the ideal that Indigenous legal traditions must be integrated within. The plan is for the beadwork to be shared between Indigenous communities and displayed in Cultural Centres across Canada. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | We plan to exhibit the beadwork at Queen's Faculty of Law, Kingston, Canada and then to have shared ownership with the Indigenous communities across Ontario therefore it can be passed around and displayed in cultural centres. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/2023/08/22/connected-nations-indigenous-rights-and-the-royal-proclamation... |
| Title | A Gasweh:da or Friendship belt made specially for the BTCC AHRC Project |
| Description | A specially created Gasweh:da or Friendship Belt, made for the BTCC project and produced in the spirit of once again 'brightening' the Covenant Chain between the Haudenosaunee and the British Crown. This will be used as an educational tool in mutiple contexts and it is hoped that it will play a key role in public diplomacy between representatives of the UK Crown and the Haudenosaunee going forward, notably at the launch of the "Dress for Redress" Exhibition at the American Museum & Gardens, Bath and at the associated Workshop Plenary Conference event on 19th May 2021. Wampum belts are tools of Indigenous diplomacy, living symbols of promises made by treaty between peoples. The BTCC team is highly honoured to begin this research project with such a powerful reminder of ongoing right relationship and alliance between our respective nations. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The production of this belt underscored and solidified strong collaborative bonds between members of the Haudenosaunee community and the BTCC project team. It also opened up significant new understandings of the historic and contemporary significance of wampum as an intercultural tool and forged new collaborative networks and connections, particularly with Haudenosaunee leadership and GRASAC, a 500+ member network - The Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts & Cultures https://grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca/?page_id=70 So far, the belt has been used by the PI as a teaching aid at an associated lecture at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge and by Co-I Prior as a teaching aid within the University of Hull, but its role is likely to significantly expand as the project continues to expand and advance. The film is available to watch on the Treatied Spaces Research Group website and Youtube page and has had 1,000 views on Youtube. The website recorded 1229 new users in January 2024. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/diplomacy-and-treaties/ |
| Title | BTCC Interview with Mohawk Residential School Survivor, Geronimo Henry |
| Description | BTCC had the privilege to speak with and to learn from Geronimo Henry, a survivor of the Mohawk Institute Residential School. Geronimo is from the Cayuga Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. A video interview with Geronimo Henry is available on the project website and Youtube. TSRG are also producing a transformative set of public-facing teaching materials for the Indian Residential School survivor to use to educate people on the realities of residential schools, the impact of inter-generational trauma. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Through speaking with Geronimo Henry BTCC has carried out further research into indigenous residential schools. Project Administrator Dickens has accessed numerous online articles and learnt a lot about the search for bodies at various residential schools throughout Canada, sharing some of these articles as a public resource on our website. We have six new interns working for TSRG from September 2023 and our project administrator has shared the teaching materials with them to learn about Geronimo's experience. The public-facing teaching materials will also be available on the website. The video interview is available on the TSRG website and Youtube page. The website recorded 1229 new users in January 2024 and we reached 31 views on Youtube. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/the-mohawk-residential-school-at-grand-river-reserve/ |
| Title | Launch of Teaser Soundscape 'Edge of the Woods' featuring Haohyoh (Ken Maracle) and Nathan Brinklow |
| Description | Haohyoh (Ken Maracle, Cayuga Nation, Deer Clan) explaining the Roll Call of the Chiefs and Thanyehténhas (Nathan Brinklow, Turtle Clan from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory) recorded by Dr Hein Schoer. Recorded at Johnson Hall Historic Site, and in locations in the Mohawk Valley, this soundscape includes historic diplomatic speeches in Mohawk, songs from the Edge of the Woods, and the 'ears, eyes and throat' greeting from the Condolence Ceremony. Launched on Treatied Spaces Research Group website. Recorded as part of Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Crown and the Iroquois Confederacy. This is the first part of an exciting digital output being produced by Co-I Charles Prior and Collaborator Dr Hein Schoer, based in Germany. Collaborative pre-production was completed in the Northeastern United States and Canada during the Spring of 2022, and included the selection and translation of historic council speeches delivered at Johnson Hall between 1750 and 1774. These were translated from eighteenth-century English to 'old' Mohawk (Kanyen'kéha), in collaboration with the Language Centre at Tyendinaga. The raw audio for Voices was recorded at Johnson Hall Historic Site in June 2022. Nathan Brinklow (Turtle Clan, Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte) recited Mohawk and English versions of the translated speeches. Traditional songs and orations from the Edge of the Woods were performed by Brinklow and Ken Maracle (Six Nations of the Grand River), and the opening greetings of the Haudenosaunee Condolence Council was recited in Mohawk with English explanations by Tom Porter (Sakokwenionkwas), leader of the Mohawk community at Kanatsiohareke near Fonda, New York. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | This Soundscape is the first of its kind. It is intended as a vital tool to help the Tyendinaga community's efforts to protect and widen the speaking of Mohawk, which connects with and cognate initiatives at Kanesatake (Quebec), Kahnawake and Akwasasne (New York). It will also significantly enhance visitor experience and public understanding at Johnson Hall Historic Site, and other state-managed heritage sites across New York. During 2023 we aim to make the recording available at the Six Nations community at Grand River, Tyendinaga Cultural Centre, exhibited at the North American Native Museum (Zurich), the American Museum and Gardens (Bath), the British Library, the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre (Queen's University), the Law Atrium (Queens University). The project has led to discussions of an expansion of the project, and plans are underway for a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (Prior), and an AHRC Standard Research Grant (Prior, Schoer, Brinklow, Maracle). |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/diplomacy-and-treaties/#soundscape |
| Title | Voices at the Edge of the Woods 'A Two Thousand Year Old Custom' |
| Description | Co-I Prior and Dr Hein Schoer co-produced 'A Two Thousand Year Old Custom' a speech in Mohawk by BTCC Indigenous collaborator Sakokwenionkwas Tom Porter (Bear Clan, Mohawks of Akwesasne). 'Voices at the Edge of the Woods' is an immersive soundscape of Haudenosaunee diplomatic speech. The recording was made during summer 2022 at Johnson Hall Historic Site in present-day New York. It recreates Haudenosaunee Council oratory in Kanyen'kéha (Mohawk). The soundscape was released on the Treatied Spaces Research Group website in February 2024 and is due to be exhibited at the American Museums and Gardens, Bath, the Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, New York and Johnson Hall Historic Site in Spring 2024. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | The soundscape was released on the Treatied Spaces Research Group website in February 2024 and is due to be exhibited at the American Museums and Gardens, Bath, the Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, New York and Johnson Hall Historic Site, New York in Spring 2024 followed by further museums and cultural centres in the future, if AHRC Follow-on-Funding is awarded. The TSRG website showcases the BTCC project outputs and reached 1229 new users in January 2024. The soundscapes have generated unprecedented interest from Indigenous communities, museums and heritage sites, education providers, exam boards, and those active in the policy arena keen to address the persistent decline of Indigenous languages. We are working with these Indigenous heritage partners to further disseminate the soundscape throughout North-eastern America, Canada and Europe. Through a range of educational and creative engagements with new Indigenous and North American user communities we aim to utilise this digital tool to centre Indigenous peoples and their experiences, challenge outdated American colonial history narratives, and provide educators, students, and the wider public with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/soundscape/ |
| Title | Voices at the Edge of the Woods 'Hai Hai' |
| Description | Co-I Prior and Dr Hein Schoer co-produced 'Hai Hai' a song in Cayuga by BTCC Indigenous collaborator Haohyoh Ken Maracle, Deer Clan, Faith Keeper of the Lower Cayuga Longhouse, Six Nations of the Grand River. The recording was made during summer 2022 at Johnson Hall Historic Site in present-day New York. The 'Hai Hai' soundscape is bespoke to Johnson Hall and is meant to be listened to on location, it is due to be exhibited at Johnson Hall Historic Site in Spring 2024. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | This bespoke soundscape is due to be exhibited at Johnson Hall Historic Site, New York in Spring 2024. The soundscapes have generated unprecedented interest from Indigenous communities, museums and heritage sites, education providers, exam boards, and those active in the policy arena keen to address the persistent decline of Indigenous languages. We are working with these Indigenous heritage partners to further disseminate the soundscape throughout North-eastern America, Canada and Europe. Through a range of educational and creative engagements with new Indigenous and North American user communities we aim to utilise this digital tool to centre Indigenous peoples and their experiences, challenge outdated American colonial history narratives, and provide educators, students, and the wider public with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/soundscape/ |
| Title | Voices at the Edge of the Woods 'The String' |
| Description | Co-I Prior and Dr Hein Schoer co-produced 'The String' an audio montage by BTCC Indigenous collaborators Ken Maracle, Nathan Brinklow, Wade Wells and Tom Porter. 'The String' is an audio montage which brings together material recorded during summer 2022 at Johnson Hall Historic Site in present-day New York, in Kanyen'kéha (Mohawk). The soundscape was released on the Treatied Spaces Research Group website in February 2024 and is due to be exhibited at the American Museums and Gardens, Bath, the Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, New York and Johnson Hall Historic Site in Spring 2024. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | The soundscape was released on the Treatied Spaces Research Group website in February 2024 and is due to be exhibited at the American Museums and Gardens, Bath, the Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, New York and Johnson Hall Historic Site, New York in Spring 2024 followed by further museums and cultural centres in the future, if AHRC Follow-on-Funding is awarded. The TSRG website showcases the BTCC project outputs and reached 1229 new users in January 2024. The soundscapes have generated unprecedented interest from Indigenous communities, museums and heritage sites, education providers, exam boards, and those active in the policy arena keen to address the persistent decline of Indigenous languages. We are working with these Indigenous heritage partners to further disseminate the soundscape throughout North-eastern America, Canada and Europe. Through a range of educational and creative engagements with new Indigenous and North American user communities we aim to utilise this digital tool to centre Indigenous peoples and their experiences, challenge outdated American colonial history narratives, and provide educators, students, and the wider public with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/soundscape/ |
| Title | Voices at the Edge of the Woods 'Two Songs' |
| Description | Co-I Prior and Dr Hein Schoer co-produced 'Two Songs' a song in Cayuga by BTCC Indigenous collaborator Haohyoh Ken Maracle, Deer Clan, Faith Keeper of the Lower Cayuga Longhouse, Six Nations of the Grand River. The recording was made during summer 2022 at Johnson Hall Historic Site in present-day New York. The 'Hai Hai' soundscape is bespoke to Johnson Hall and is meant to be listened to on location, it is due to be exhibited at Johnson Hall Historic Site in Spring 2024. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | This bespoke soundscape 'Two Songs' is due to be exhibited at Johnson Hall Historic Site, New York in Spring 2024. The soundscapes have generated unprecedented interest from Indigenous communities, museums and heritage sites, education providers, exam boards, and those active in the policy arena keen to address the persistent decline of Indigenous languages. We are working with these Indigenous heritage partners to further disseminate the soundscape throughout North-eastern America, Canada and Europe. Through a range of educational and creative engagements with new Indigenous and North American user communities we aim to utilise this digital tool to centre Indigenous peoples and their experiences, challenge outdated American colonial history narratives, and provide educators, students, and the wider public with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/soundscape/ |
| Title | Voices at the Edge of the Woods 'Great Peace' |
| Description | Co-I Prior and Dr Hein Schoer co-produced 'Great Peace' a Diplomatic speech translated from English source into 'old' Mohawk by BTCC Indigenous collaborator Thanyehténhas Nathan Brinklow (Turtle Clan from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory). 'Voices at the Edge of the Woods' is an immersive soundscape of Haudenosaunee diplomatic speech. The recording was made during summer 2022 at Johnson Hall Historic Site in present-day New York. It recreates Haudenosaunee Council oratory in Kanyen'kéha (Mohawk). The soundscape is due to be exhibited at the American Museums and Gardens, Bath, the Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, New York and Johnson Hall Historic Site in Spring 2024. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | The soundscape was released on the Treatied Spaces Research Group website in February 2024 and is due to be exhibited at the American Museums and Gardens, Bath, the Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, New York and Johnson Hall Historic Site, New York in Spring 2024 followed by further museums and cultural centres in the future, if AHRC Follow-on-Funding is awarded. The soundscape will be made available on the TSRG website showcases the BTCC project outputs and reached 1229 new users in January 2024. The soundscapes have generated unprecedented interest from Indigenous communities, museums and heritage sites, education providers, exam boards, and those active in the policy arena keen to address the persistent decline of Indigenous languages. We are working with these Indigenous heritage partners to further disseminate the soundscape throughout North-eastern America, Canada and Europe. Through a range of educational and creative engagements with new Indigenous and North American user communities we aim to utilise this digital tool to centre Indigenous peoples and their experiences, challenge outdated American colonial history narratives, and provide educators, students, and the wider public with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/soundscape/ |
| Title | Voices at the Edge of the Woods 'Holding Fast by the Covenant Chain' |
| Description | Co-I Prior and Dr Hein Schoer co-produced 'Holding Fast by the Covenant Chain' a Diplomatic speech translated from English into 'old' Mohawk source by BTCC Indigenous collaborator Thanyehténhas Nathan Brinklow (Turtle Clan from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory). 'Voices at the Edge of the Woods' is an immersive soundscape of Haudenosaunee diplomatic speech. The recording was made during summer 2022 at Johnson Hall Historic Site in present-day New York. It recreates Haudenosaunee Council oratory in Kanyen'kéha (Mohawk). The soundscape is due to be exhibited at the American Museums and Gardens, Bath, the Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, New York and Johnson Hall Historic Site in Spring 2024. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | The soundscape was released on the Treatied Spaces Research Group website in February 2024 and is due to be exhibited at the American Museums and Gardens, Bath, the Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, New York and Johnson Hall Historic Site, New York in Spring 2024 followed by further museums and cultural centres in the future, if AHRC Follow-on-Funding is awarded. The soundscape will be available on the TSRG website which showcases the BTCC project outputs and reached 1229 new users in January 2024. The soundscapes have generated unprecedented interest from Indigenous communities, museums and heritage sites, education providers, exam boards, and those active in the policy arena keen to address the persistent decline of Indigenous languages. We are working with these Indigenous heritage partners to further disseminate the soundscape throughout North-eastern America, Canada and Europe. Through a range of educational and creative engagements with new Indigenous and North American user communities we aim to utilise this digital tool to centre Indigenous peoples and their experiences, challenge outdated American colonial history narratives, and provide educators, students, and the wider public with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/soundscape/ |
| Title | Voices at the Edge of the Woods 'The Old Covenant' |
| Description | Co-I Prior and Dr Hein Schoer co-produced 'The Old Covenant' a Diplomatic speech translated from English source into 'old' Mohawk by BTCC Indigenous collaborator Thanyehténhas Nathan Brinklow (Turtle Clan from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory). 'Voices at the Edge of the Woods' is an immersive soundscape of Haudenosaunee diplomatic speech. The recording was made during summer 2022 at Johnson Hall Historic Site in present-day New York. It recreates Haudenosaunee Council oratory in Kanyen'kéha (Mohawk). The soundscape is due to be exhibited at the American Museums and Gardens, Bath, the Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, New York and Johnson Hall Historic Site in Spring 2024. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | The soundscape is due to be exhibited at the American Museums and Gardens, Bath, the Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, New York and Johnson Hall Historic Site, New York in Spring 2024 followed by further museums and cultural centres in the future, if AHRC Follow-on-Funding is awarded. The TSRG website showcases the BTCC project outputs and reached 1229 new users in January 2024. The soundscapes have generated unprecedented interest from Indigenous communities, museums and heritage sites, education providers, exam boards, and those active in the policy arena keen to address the persistent decline of Indigenous languages. We are working with these Indigenous heritage partners to further disseminate the soundscape throughout North-eastern America, Canada and Europe. Through a range of educational and creative engagements with new Indigenous and North American user communities we aim to utilise this digital tool to centre Indigenous peoples and their experiences, challenge outdated American colonial history narratives, and provide educators, students, and the wider public with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/soundscape/ |
| Title | Voices at the Edge of the Woods 'We Remember How it was in Former Times' |
| Description | Co-I Prior and Dr Hein Schoer co-produced 'We Remember How it was in Former Times' a speech in Mohawk by BTCC Indigenous collaborator Thanyehténhas Nathan Brinklow (Turtle Clan from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory). 'Voices at the Edge of the Woods' is an immersive soundscape of Haudenosaunee diplomatic speech. The recording was made during summer 2022 at Johnson Hall Historic Site in present-day New York. It recreates Haudenosaunee Council oratory in Kanyen'kéha (Mohawk). The soundscape was released on the Treatied Spaces Research Group website in February 2024 and is due to be exhibited at the American Museums and Gardens, Bath, the Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, New York and Johnson Hall Historic Site in Spring 2024. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | The soundscape was released on the Treatied Spaces Research Group website in February 2024 and is due to be exhibited at the American Museums and Gardens, Bath, the Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, New York and Johnson Hall Historic Site, New York in Spring 2024 followed by further museums and cultural centres in the future, if AHRC Follow-on-Funding is awarded. The TSRG website showcases the BTCC project outputs and reached 1229 new users in January 2024. The soundscapes have generated unprecedented interest from Indigenous communities, museums and heritage sites, education providers, exam boards, and those active in the policy arena keen to address the persistent decline of Indigenous languages. We are working with these Indigenous heritage partners to further disseminate the soundscape throughout North-eastern America, Canada and Europe. Through a range of educational and creative engagements with new Indigenous and North American user communities we aim to utilise this digital tool to centre Indigenous peoples and their experiences, challenge outdated American colonial history narratives, and provide educators, students, and the wider public with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/soundscape/ |
| Description | All the award objectives were met or substantially exceeded. Key achievements include substantial new archival research, major publications, a series of field-leading digital outputs of significant value to Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaborators and to the wider public and two important treaty-based museum exhibitions in the UK and Zurich. These things were achieved despite changes and adjustments to the project required in response to Covid-19 and alterations to staff, Co-I and site circumstances (these included death, serious illness, investigator changes in national employer, change in the commercial status of suppliers, in availability of archival materials and Indigenous collaborators as well as changes in use and availability of other pivotal sites). Covid-19 required that a number of face-to-face activities moved on-line and fundamentally altered and increased the costs of the remaining essential research travel. This fostered a positive dynamic imperative to work around challenges and pool institutional resources, particularly between Queen's University and the host university (University of Hull). A sample of the completed outcomes to date include: 1)two Indigenous Artist's Exhibitions a)major UK Exhibition: 'Dress to Redress: Exploring Native American Material Culture", American Museums and Gardens, Bath b) contribution to Major Swiss Exhibition: "waawiindamaw. promise - Indigenous Art and Colonial Treaties in Canada", NONAM, Zurich 2) two Indigenous Creative Artists's Residencies: American Museum & Gardens, Bath, UK and Zurich, Switzerland. 3) 1-Day International Hybrid Conference: 'Cultures of Indigenous Diplomacy', 2022. 4) International Wampum Belt Film produced and Digitally Launch 5) PDRA 1 (Digital): Digital Indigeneity Project in collaboration with NONAM, Zurich 6) 2-Day International Hybrid Symposium: "Connected Nations: Indigenous Rights and the Royal Proclamation of 1763", Queen's University, Kingston Canada 7) World-leading widely-disseminated publications: a) Co-I Hämäläinen, Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) c) PI Porter, 'Canada's Green Challenge', McGill-Queen's University Press, under contract, 2025. d) Co-I Prior, 'Treaty Ground: Diplomacy and the Politics of Sovereignty in the American Northeast', under contract, University of Nebraska Press, 2025 e) four book chapters in edited collections. f) 'Connected Nations' edited collection proposal under consideration by McGill-Queen's University Press 8) large digital outputs with significant unforeseen commercial potential: a) Kinetic Map: Movement and Common Worlds in Early America b) a series of Soundscapes (in Mohawk language): 'Voices at the Edge of the Woods': 'The String'; ' A Two Thousand Year Old Custom'; 'We Remember How It Was in Former Times'; 'Speech 1775 Albany', 'Speech 1762 Johnson Hall, New York'; 'Speech 1747 Clinton to Mohawks'; 'Condolence Songs'; 'Edge of the Woods Ceremony' for dissemination at Inidgenous and public sites across the Northeast of the US. 10) Zooniverse People-Powered research project: "Mapscapes: Revealing Indigenous Placenames in the American Northeast" 12) filmed Interview with Mohawk Residential School Survivor Geronimo Henry and a portfolio of teaching and dissemination materials 13) impact Evaluation carried out on the project 'Dress to Redress' exhibition mounted at AM&G, Bath. 14) extensive consultation work carried out to Indigenize UK Exam provision and Oxford AQA Textbook America 1840-1895 Expansion and Consolidation 15) extensive project-linked Media engagement and Podcast Interviews. 16) an extensive, multi-use project website- please see: treatiedspaces.com 17) materials for schools at GCSE and A-level. Further outputs are pending in this the final 6 months of the funded period. |
| Exploitation Route | The project's positive contributions to Canadian Law decisions involving Indigenous treaties rooted in British-indigenous relationships that have significant commercial and inter-cultural implications are likely to continue as the planned legacy of the project grows. The ideas, evidence and thinking surrounding the long-standing diplomatic interactions between the British Crown and the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois produced by the project and disseminated multiply, including within high-profile international publications, are likely to provide a valuable bedrock for future work in this area. The open-access Soundscape and Kinetic Map are also field-leading research tools of significant ongoing value to Indigenous communities, museums and heritage sites across North America and Europe, to education providers, exam boards, and to those keen to address the persistent decline of Indigenous languages to centre Indigenous peoples and their experiences. They challenge outdated American colonial history narratives, and provide educators, students, and the wider public with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures. Through follow on funding, we will collaborate to maximise unforeseen opportunities for impact that have arisen linked to four key Northeastern heritage sites and indigenous cultural centres who have approached us to feature the project's digital outputs at their sites and co-produce a series of digital learning resources and activities that engage Indigenous and non - Indigenous children, young people and others with the diplomatic and intercultural history of the American Northeast. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections Security and Diplomacy |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/diplomacy-and-treaties/ |
| Description | NB: All of what is presented below was achieved despite the challenges raised by Covid and the associated disruption to international travel. KE & Impact Our work within the BTCC project has enabled us to secure limited internally-administrated AHRC Hull Impact and Knowledge Exchange (HIKE) funding to support the hiring of a Knowledge Exchange Fellow who is now advancing the unforeseen pathways to impact arising from BTCC. They will build on the unexpected success of BTCC's digital outputs: the Kinetic Map and the Soundscape, which have generated significant interest from Indigenous communities, heritage sites, education providers, and those keen to preserve endangered Indigenous languages across the Northeast of the United States and further afield. This project will enhance the value and wider benefit of these digital outputs beyond academia, generating social, economic, and cultural benefit on an international scale. Over 12 months the KE Fellow will: Collaborate with the Oneida Language & Cultural Centre, Ontario to save their critically endangered language (only 26 speakers left) by enabling them to utilise the research and ground-breaking digital outputs of the BTCC project to create new educational resources; Enhance the impact reach of the BTCC project's immersive Soundscape and interactive Kinetic Map through their installation at significant North American cultural sites; Engage diverse global audiences with the Soundscape through its promotion to major media outlets and education publishers; Capitalise upon and expand existing business relationships with several global education services providers, including Gale Cengage and Oxford University Press, utilising BTCC project research and digital outputs to meet their urgent strategic need to decolonize provision; Help Indigenous people who were abused at the Mohawk Residential School, Ontario, to tell their stories through online interviews and podcasts and create associated materials for invited talks. Advance public awareness of female Indigenous roles in diplomacy over time, especially the Clan Mother political role within the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) peoples, by creating an online portal, accessible via the TSRG website, which will facilitate access to the BTCC project's archival materials on Crown-Indigenous diplomacy. KE GRANT ENGAGEMENT: ARC Accelerate Grant As a consequence of our work on the ground-breaking Kinetic Map, PI Porter made it through to the final stage of the ARC Accelerate funding stream, for a discrete project to support and validate use of the kinetic masp as a cooperative venture idea and potential sustainable business model. The ARC team were impressed by the commercial potential of the Kinetic Map and believed it could be transformative for the education sector, as well as for marginalised communities, as such maps transform entrenched perceptions of place, and allow users to see the world through their chosen identities. POLICY IMPACT: PI Porter presented key aspects of the project outside of the historical profession to key international policy-makers and advisors, including at two events at Harvard Law School ( 14 April, 2023, Harvard Law School Symposium on "Stewardship, Communitarianism (Intellectual Property), Traditional Knowledge Protection"; 15 Feb 2024, Harvard Law School, "Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual property in International Law"). This work continues to have a ripple effect within the policy area and has led to engagement with government-level Intellectual Property advisors and representatives including and Michael Schwager, Director General, IP Australia and Wend Wendland, Director, World Intellectual Property Organisation, Geneva. Nucleation of Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Area in UK: Our work has significantly helped grow the new international field of Intangible Cultural Heritage as it applies to Traditional Knowledge and it has made possible the appointment of an associated new staff member (Lecturer, FT, joint appointment with Department of AI and Machine Learning) working in this area at our institution. This new staff member's teaching lies within our institution's Department of AI and Machine Learning, however their research is concerned with ICH and its relationships with Traditional Ecological Knowledge and their research outputs will be returned within the History UoA. Nucleation of Traditional Knowledge in Intellectual Property Law Research Area within UK: The PI's work within this project led to her being invited to speak on several occasions at Harvard Law School Conferences on International Law, Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights. This led to her work being recommended by Sir Ian Goss to the Director of Policy and International Affairs for IP Australia, a key part of the Australian Government. She remains committed to using her expertise to aid ITP Law policy specialist as they work at the forefront of changing IP Law on a global level as it applies to the use of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge. This effort concerns inidgenous treaty-mkaing centrally and has tremendous ongoing impact for the bio-tech and genetics industries worldwide. Nucleation of Project Consultancy Spin-Out Decolonising Educational Provision: The project provide a context for the birth of a new educational consultancy (Athas Group Ltd), directed by the PI, which developed in response to requests by business schools and major global exam board and publishing entities for reports to be generated to help advance the historical accuracy of their representation of the Indigenous world. The project unique network of Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaborators worked together to provide these requested services which have had lasting impact in the UK and beyond and hope to continue to do so. LEGAL EXPERT WITNESS ON INFRINGEMENT OF TREATY RIGHTS WITHIN CANADA Co-I Walters showcased his research from the BTCC project centrally as an expert witness within the pivotal Canadian Indigenous tobacco import case R c Montour 2023 QCCS 4152, adjudicated by Justice Bourke. This case decision lead to a stark departure from the usual rulings put forward on Aboriginal rights by the Supreme Court of Canada and is likely to have ongoing profound implications for trade conducted by Indigenous peoples between the US and Canada. The jury accepted the historical evidence presented by BTCC Co-I Walters on the legal history of the Covenant Chain treaty relationship and ruled that the Covenant Chain treaty was extent. As a result, the court developed and applied a new legal test to determine whether the applicants had an Aboriginal right to trade tobacco based on contemporary, rather than historical practices. Walters used his BTCC research to prove that trade was a central component of the Covenant Chain and a key topic of council meetings between the british and the Haudenausaunee. For more, see https://www.mandellpinder.com/r-c-montour-2023-qccs-4154-case-summary/ MUSEUM & HERITAGE IMPACT: Following the two project museum exhibits and Artist's Residencies at the American Museum & Gardens, Bath, UK and North America Native Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, the project topic -indigenous treaties has continued to gain traction within the heritage and museum worlds. The AMG, Bath will be using the project Kinetic Map and Soundscape as a permanent installation for learners of all ages from the end of 2024. SOCIAL IMPACT: a)The Project Administrator and PI worked closely with Geronimo Henry, a survivor of the Mohawk Residential School, Brantford, Ontario to produce a suite of physical learning materials, a powerpoint and associated web presence to support his ongoing public engagement at heritage and indigenous sites educating the world about the lasting impacts of residential school Indigenous abuse. For more, please see: https://treatiedspaces.com/the-mohawk-residential-school-at-grand-river-reserve/. b)Other social impact work carried out by the BTCC project includes work on Indigenous Clan Mothers, for more, please see: https://treatiedspaces.com/clan-mothers/ c) PDRA Wong's sub-project, "A Green Toolkit for a UK Space Economy", working with the UK Space Agency, continues to yield policy impact. He has been selected to meet and share ideas on this topic with representatives from the Singapore Ministry of Trade & Industry (MTI) in 2024. His research on space sustainability and its social and cultural impacts grew out of his work within the BTCC project. He presented on the "Green Toolkit at the UN-Austria Symposium 2023 "Space for Climate Action: Space Applications and Technologies for Sustainability on Earth". d) PI Porter & Co-I Prior consulted with two Exam Boards, one of which was Oxford AQA to help re-write the GCSE and A-Level provision on the "America 1840-1895: Expansion & Consolidation" in order to make their new provision more historically accurate in relation to Indigenous peoples' histories (whilst staying as required within the existing government specifications). This will significantly impact the many thousands (98,058 AQA GCSE 2023) of UK students undertaking this coursework and assessment each year on an ongoing basis. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2023 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Education,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology,Security and Diplomacy |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Co-I Walters expert witness in The Queen v. White and Montour, Superior Court of Quebec, Montreal |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | The court found the old Aboriginal rights test, established in Van der Peet, needed to be updated to reflect a modern understanding of Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal rights, and reconciliation. The judgement is a game-changing advancement of the law of Aboriginal peoples. The Honourable Sophie Bourque found that the Covenant Chain is a Treaty recognized by s. 35(1) and rejected the argument that the Treaty is extinct. The development and application of a New Section 35(1) Aboriginal Rights and Title Test. The Court used UNDRIP to reject the Van der Peet s. 35(1) Aboriginal rights test. The three-part test is reframed as follows: Van der Peet Test (As recently summarized in R v Desautel, 2021 SCC 17, para 51) 1. Characterize the right claimed in light of the pleadings and evidence. 2. Determine whether the claimant has proven that a relevant pre-contact practice, tradition or custom existed and was integral to the distinctive culture of the pre-contact society. 3. Determined whether the claimed modern right is "demonstrably connected to, and reasonably regarded as a continuation of, the pre-contact practice". White and Montour Test 1. Identify the collective right invoked. 2. Prove that the right is protected by the collective's Indigenous legal system. 3. Show that the activity or practice in question is an exercise of the collective right. This new formulation of the test is a welcome shift that better aligns Canada's common law with UNDRIP. The Court's reframing intends to better recognize and protect generic Indigenous rights grounded in Indigenous legal systems instead of limiting Aboriginal rights to specific pre-contact practices, traditions, or customs. Some of the news coverage is below: https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/general/quebec-decision-on-mohawk-tobacco-trade-a-game-changing-advancement-in-aboriginal-law-says-lawyer/381194 https://jfklaw.ca/quebec-superior-court-relies-on-undrip-to-prescribe-new-section-351-test-in-r-v-white-and-montour/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/quebec-ruling-tobacco-trade-treaty-right-1.7016872 https://www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/law/in-depth/2023/a-new-era-in-canadian-law landmark-indigenous-rights-case https://easterndoor.com/2023/11/09/history-made-in-tobacco-case/ The Attorney General of Quebec and director of criminal and penal prosecutions filed a notice of appeal, the case will therefore continue to have press coverage. |
| URL | https://jfklaw.ca/quebec-superior-court-relies-on-undrip-to-prescribe-new-section-351-test-in-r-v-wh... |
| Description | Consultancy Report for major global publisher (Non-Disclosure Agreement Signed) - Indigenizing A Level Curriculum |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | This work has significantly altered how the Indigenous world is portrayed within UK school textbooks. This work with publishers is likely to have profound positive impact making understanding and representation of the Indigenous world more historically accurate within UK schools. |
| Description | Consultancy Report on OUP and OCR |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | This work is likely to significantly alter how the Indigenous world is portrayed within UK school textbooks and how that representation is examined within two UK Exam Board. This work with exam boards and publishers is likely to have profound positive impact making understanding and representation of the Indigenous world more historically accurate within UK schools. |
| Description | Consultancy advice on Indigenization of new text book for OUP and OCR - 2024 GCSE American West and A-Level |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | This work is likely to significantly alter how the Indigenous world is portrayed within UK school textbooks and how that representation is examined within two UK Exam Board. This work with exam boards and publishers is likely to have profound positive impact making understanding and representation of the Indigenous world more historically accurate within UK schools. |
| Description | Contribution to the NHS leadership programme Doctorate in Clinical Science |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | CHECK |
| Description | Decolonizing UK Textbooks and Exam Board Provision |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Impact | This work is likely to significantly alter how the Indigenous world is portrayed within UK school textbooks and how that representation is examined within one or more UK Exam Board. As the Specification for UK provision is re-examined in 2023/24 by the Department of Education in collaboration with the major Uk publishers and exam boards with which the PI is working, the policy advice sheets and other publications to be produced and the work done under confidential agreement with publishers and exam boards is likely to have profound positive impact making understanding and representation of the Indigenous world more historically accurate within UK schools. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/knowledge-exchange/ |
| Description | Filming of an A Level Lecture by PI Porter for MASSOLIT to be used as part of their A Level History Teaching Provision |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://massolit.io/ |
| Description | New course material produced for researchers on Mohawk Residential School survivor Geronimo Henry |
| Geographic Reach | North America |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Our co-produced work with Mohawk residential School survivor Geronimo Henry helped him to reach 100s of people across 2023-2024, educating them on how the Canadian residential school assimilation system impacted Indigenous Canadians. Mr Henry also used our outputs to reach many more people via Canadian broadcast TV. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/the-mohawk-residential-school-at-grand-river-reserve/ |
| Description | PDRA Appointed Institutional Post Doctoral Research Representative, UoH Research Committee |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | PDRA Gillespie contributed to new guidance linked to practice for PDRAs and to new institutional policy on PDRAs. |
| Description | PI Porter and collaborators completed a re-design of Oxford AQA GCSE History (9-1) America 1840-1896: Expansion and Consolidation (Oxford University Press, 2023) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/knowledge-exchange/ |
| Description | PI Porter consulted with the Head of Skills, Arts and Humanities Research Council and senior UKRI staff on planned revisions to CDA provision. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | Improvements to effectiveness of UKRI delivery and student experience. |
| Description | PI Porter worked with IP Australia and WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) on Inidgenous Traditional Knowledge IP in run-up to May 2024 Geneva Treaty |
| Geographic Reach | North America |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | PI Porter discussed research she delivered at the Harvard Law Conference "Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Knowledge, and Intellectual Property in International Law" with Director Wendland so as to facilitate the treaty preparations on this theme planned for Geneva, 2024. |
| URL | https://www.wipo.int/diplomatic-conferences/en/genetic-resources/#:~:text=Geneva%2C%20May%2013-24%2C... |
| Description | PI appointed a "Rover' College Member for the UKRI Interdisciplinary Assessment College (IAC). |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | PI Porter's service on the UKRI Interdisciplinary Assessment College (IAC) improved application of this UKRI scheme and worked to align its practice to funding scheme aims. |
| URL | https://engagementhub.ukri.org/ukri-talent/ukri-interdisciplinary-assessment-college-iac-conf/#:~:te... |
| Description | Provision of co-produced dissemination materials to support Indigenous survivor of Residential School system, Canada |
| Geographic Reach | North America |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | BTCC production of new and unforeseen teaching and dissemination materials for Mohawk residential School Survivor Geronimo Henry has significantly helped him reach more people with his story and helped him present it in digital form to multiple sets of publics. |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/the-mohawk-residential-school-at-grand-river-reserve/ |
| Description | HEIF 'TSRG Impact & KE showcase reel' PI Porter |
| Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 4508213 |
| Organisation | Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2024 |
| End | 07/2024 |
| Description | IAA UKRI HIKE 'Impact Acceleration for "Brightening the Covenant Chain" Soundscape: a new and creative route to experiencing the past PI Porter |
| Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 4226607 |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2023 |
| End | 11/2024 |
| Description | IAA UKRI HIKE Fellowship - Indigenizing the UK Curriculum: Global Indigenous Inclusion PI Porter |
| Amount | £54,656 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 4056351 |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2024 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | IAA UKRI HIKE Rapid Response - Impact Evaluation AM&G PI Porter |
| Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | IAA UKRI HIKE: Engaging diverse global audiences for AHRC SRG 'Brightening the Covenant Chain PI Porter |
| Amount | £1,999 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2023 |
| End | 10/2023 |
| Description | IAA UKRI RCIF Capital Investment - Audio Equipment PI Porter, Co-I Prior |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship - PI Porter Host, VP Dr Damien Lee |
| Amount | £79,820 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | VP2-2023-022 |
| Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2024 |
| End | 04/2025 |
| Description | PI Porter Co-I Living With/Out Water Research Strand within the Leverhulme Doctoral Centre for Water Cultures |
| Amount | £1,350,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 3497356 |
| Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 01/2024 |
| Description | Policy Support Fund - QR Funding from Research England 2022 |
| Amount | £13,486 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Hull |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Post-Doctoral Enrichment Award |
| Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 2PDEA |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 10/2022 |
| Description | The Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2024-27) 'Treatied States of America: Interior Diplomacy and the Contest for (Native) American Resources' - Co-I Prior |
| Amount | £175,403 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2024 |
| End | 08/2027 |
| Description | UKRI COVID-19 Grant Extension- Internally Awarded from Block Institutional Grant |
| Amount | £7,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Hull |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | UKRI Research England - Policy Support Fund - QR Funding International Travel Co-I Prior |
| Amount | £6,747 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2023 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Description | UKRI Research England - Policy Support Fund - QR Funding International Travel PI Porter |
| Amount | £4,804 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Dr Matthias Wong is collaborating on a Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Tier 2 Grant with Associate Professor Fiona C. Williamson along with 5 other collaborators on Water Security: Building a Deeper Long-Term Climate Understanding of Rainfall Trends in Singapore, West Malaysia, and Northern Sumatra |
| Organisation | Singapore Management University (SMU) |
| Country | Singapore |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | PDRA Dr Matthias Wong's experience planning the Zooniverse project for the BTCC has led to a successful grant application led by Fiona Williamson at Singapore Management University, announced Nov 2023. He is one of 6 collaborators on the 'Water Security: Building a Deeper Long-Term Climate Understanding of Rainfall Trends in Singapore, West Malaysia, and Northern Sumatra' Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Tier 2 Grant, roughly half a million Singapore Dollars. Dr Wong will be involved in one of the project workflows on using citizen science to digitise data on historical weather logbooks of ships travelling through Southeast Asia. Other collaborators are at Brighton, UEA Climatic Research, and the UK Met Office. Dr Wong gained experience on the Zooniverse platform whilst creating a new digital initiative for the Brightening the Covenant Chain project, 'MAPSCAPES: REVEALING INDIGENOUS PLACENAMES IN THE AMERICAN NORTHEAST STATISTICS'. His experience has led to this opportunity to collaborate on this amazing project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration allows Dr Wong to work alongside various climate change specialists at Brighton, UEA Climatic Research, and the UK Met Office. |
| Impact | No impacts as yet, the project was due to commence February 2024. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Johnson Hall State Historic Site for recording the soundscape 'Voices at the Edge of the Woods' and promoting the project to their audiences and regional partners in the Northeast |
| Organisation | New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | As part of the BTCC AHRC Standard Research Grant we have recorded Council oratory, speech and song, recreating Haudenosaunee Council oratory in Kanyen'kéha (Mohawk), and Gayogo_hó?no (Cayuga). It revitalizes elements of Council oratory, speech and song frequently omitted in British transcriptions of treaty councils. Several of the recorded speeches were known to be delivered at Johnson Hall State Historic Site. Sir William Johnson's role as a diplomat for the British Crown to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy makes Johnson Hall State Historic Site an ideal place to share this unique project. This Soundscape will be disseminated throughout Canada, the Northeast and the UK in museums, cultural centres and hopefully used in education. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Johnson Hall State Historic Site served as the site to record the soundscape within the grounds and the hall itself. They will also exhibit the soundscape in Spring 2024 at Johnson Hall State Historic Site and are looking at other regional partners where the soundscape can be exhibited. |
| Impact | The exhibition is due to commence in Spring 2024 and will reach the general public who visit JHHS including school visits. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Kinetic Map: Movement and Common Worlds in Early America |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Multiple research trips and collaborative meetings in 2022, this sequential, dynamic and interactive animation reveals how the treaty process drove the transformation of political and intercultural landscape of the Northeast over 230 years. With layers based on twenty historic maps, the Map showcases the permeable boundaries and spaces of Indigenous-colonial interaction, traditional routes of movement, and the hardening of borders. This project is co-ordinated by BTCC Co-I Dr Charles Prior and PDRA 1 (Digital) Dr Matthias Wong and is on schedule. So far we have: Completed georectification and point / polygon data capture on historic maps: capturing over 8000 individual data points; Carried out additional archival and photographic work; Completion of text of four Map Stories - short narratives that draw upon the Map's data and visualisations to showcase the permeability of boundaries and the intermixing of populations |
| Collaborator Contribution | King's Digital Lab (KDL) part of Kings College London are producing a Data Visualization web application for the AHRC Standard Research grant, 'Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Crown and the Iroquois' (BTCC). KDL will produce a Data Visualization web application over a period of three years. Work completed in 2022 includes design and adjustment of User Interface and back-end data infrastructure. |
| Impact | Ongoing project. Due to hold a workshop in April 2023 bringing together the core TSRG and King's Digital teams, Indigenous scholars with experience in digital platforms, and those who have delivered digital mapping platforms and others to test a beta version. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Mohawk Grand River Diplomatic Soundscape |
| Organisation | Six Nations Indian Museum |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We collaborated with the Six Nations of the Grand River to make a soundscape about wampum, Clan Mothers and diplomatic practice between the Haudenosaunee and the British Crown across time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We made the recoding under the direction of key faithkeepers and leaders of the Six Nations- we contributed, they made it! |
| Impact | The Soundscape is just coming out of post-production and will be launched in the coming months internationally, after further consultation with our Mohawk and Haudenosaunee collaborators. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Voices at the Edge of the Woods Soundscape Exhibition American Museums and Gardens, Bath |
| Organisation | American Museum and Gardens |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Brightening the Covenant Chain research team (BTCC) worked closely with the Chief Curator and Exhibition & Interpretation Officer at the American Museum & Gardens (AM&G) to organise a suitable gallery space and specialist audio equipment to exhibit the Voices at the Edge of the Woods Soundscape produced by BTCC AHRC STG. Members of the research team created a positive and ongoing relationship between the AM&G during the BTCC project following on from the Dress to Redress exhibition in 2022. The BTCC research team produced contextual and background information to enable AM&G to organise the production of culturally-sensitive information and images for the new AM&G text panels to be displayed alongside the museum exhibits. |
| Collaborator Contribution | In collaboration with the BTCC team, the American Museum & Gardens curated, designed, staged and locally promoted the Voices at the Edge of the Woods Soundscape exhibition. They also provided the time and expertise of their educational outreach staff, exhibition and curatorial staff. AM&G have also discussed the possibility of including the soundscape on the Bloomberg Connects App which we will discuss further once the exhibition is in progress. A highly positive and ever-expanding research and heritage relationship between the Treatied Spaces research Group and its networks and the AM&G has been established since the inception of this grant that augurs strongly for future successful impact and engagement work capable of transforming understanding of the UK's relationship to the Indigenous world across time in public contexts. |
| Impact | The exhibition is due to open on 9th March 2024 and we plan to carry out impact evaluation in late summer. The Soundscape will be made available on the Bloomberg Connects App for visitors to listen from their phones whether at the museum or at home. This means that Voices will reach a wider audience. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Company Name | Athas Group Limited |
| Description | |
| Year Established | 2022 |
| Impact | This company is involved in significantly altering how the Indigenous world is portrayed within UK school textbooks and how that representation is examined within one or more UK Exam Board. Working with inidgenous collaborators, Athas Group Ltd has produced two 50-page consultancy reports in 2022/23 on Indigenous representation at GCSE and A-Level and is in the process of consulting on alterations and adaptations to the new GCSE and A Level text book and on planned Indigenous materials for future aspects of the UK curriculum. |
| Description | BTCC Advisory Board Meeting and review of written report December 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | P-I Porter, Co-I Prior, PDRA Wong and Project Administrator C Ward attended a meeting with the advisory board members, an expert panel in the field to discuss the outcomes and impact of the BTCC project. Preparation of an in depth project report produced for BTCC advisory board members. Review of the project report and showcase of the outputs produced by the project. Feedback from the advisory board members and input into the impact of the outputs. The advisory board members are based internationally including; Australian National University (Canberra), University of New South Wales, University of Victoria, University of Sussex, University of Leicester, University of Geneva, University of London, Loughborough University and the British Library. The BTCC team and expert panel of the advisory board discussed ongoing plans of the project, including the 'Dress to Redress: Exploring Native American Material Culture' exhibition and artist residency planned for 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | BTCC Advisory Board Meeting and review of written report February 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | P-I Porter, Co-I Prior, PDRA Weir, PDRA Gillespie and Project Administrator R Dickens attended a meeting with the advisory board members, an expert panel in the field to discuss the outcomes and impact of the BTCC project. Preparation of an in depth project report produced for BTCC advisory board members. Review of the project report and showcase of the digital outputs produced by the project. Feedback from the advisory board members and input into the impact of the digital outputs. The advisory board members are based internationally including; Australian National University (Canberra), University of New South Wales, University of Victoria, University of Sussex, University of Leicester, University of Geneva, University of London, Loughborough University and the British Library. The BTCC team and expert panel of the advisory board discussed ways in which the digital outputs could be disseminated, brought into education and curriculum and commercialised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | BTCC Advisory Board Meeting and review of written report January 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | P-I Porter, Co-I Prior, PDRA Weir, PDRA Wong and Project Administrator R Dickens attended a meeting with the advisory board members, an expert panel in the field to discuss the outcomes and impact of the BTCC project. Preparation of an in depth project report produced for BTCC advisory board members. Review of the project report and showcase of the digital outputs produced by the project. Feedback from the advisory board members and input into the impact of the digital outputs. The advisory board members are based internationally including; Australian National University (Canberra), University of New South Wales, University of Victoria, University of Sussex, University of Leicester, University of Geneva, University of London, Loughborough University and the British Library. The BTCC team and expert panel of the advisory board discussed ways in which we could improve on the project outputs and ways in which the digital outputs could be disseminated, brought into education and curriculum and commercialised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | BTCC CO-I Dr Charles Prior presented an invited research lecture at the Global Georgians Transnational Interactions with the British Monarchy event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 50+ scholars, PGRS, PG & UG students attended a collaborative roundtable discussion organised by BTCC partner the Georgian Papers Programme (GPP) about transnational interactions between the British monarchy and leader and peoples from around the globe that centrally featured new work by Co-I Prior. It sparked broad and ongoing international debate and the This event built on David Armitage's time as the 2019 Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor at King's College London and fed into subsequent, larger projects on associated themes that benefitted from this discussion and the international links formed. During his time with the GPP, Professor Armitage studied George III and the Law of Nations and their discussion explored some of the insights from this project to understand more about connections between the British monarchy and the world outside of Europe. In total there were three invited panelists who shared papers about their research into different parts of the world during, or just after, the reign of the Georgian monarchs. Charles Prior (University of Hull) spoke about ongoing research into the relationship between the British crown and Native American polities. Priya Atwal (University of Oxford) discussed how royal blood framed Queen Victoria's relations with Indian rulers and European princes in the mid-nineteenth century, and Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford) discussed work on British interactions with the Qing dynasty in China, particularly the role of translators, officials, and the MaCartney mission. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://georgianpapers.com/2021/06/29/global-georgians-transnational-interactions-with-the-british-m... |
| Description | BTCC Collaborator Nathan Brinklow interview with Queen's Gazette appears in Education News Canada |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | BTCC Collaborator Nathan Brinklow interview with the Queen's Gazette LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION "If something can be described, it can be named": Queen's Researcher Working to Revitalize and Reclaim the Mohawk language. In this interview with Queen's Gazette, Brinklow delves into his work supporting language revitalization and his personal language journey. Language revitalization is not possible without culture. Learning a language offers a window into how past speakers engaged with the world, articulating their thoughts and feelings as they encountered things for the first time. Turtle Clan from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Thanyehténhas Nathan Brinklow, Director of the Indigenous Studies Program at Queen's, is working to revitalize and reclaim Kanyen'kéha (Mohawk language) by bringing his own experience to his teaching and studying of Mohawk, particularly for adult learners. Queen's Gazette reaches 1.9 million readers. https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/if-something-can-be-described-it-can-be-named Education News Canada is a daily e-newsletter delivering the latest news and developments related to the education field. In addition to publishing news issued by universities, colleges, school boards, governments and related organizations, we also conduct a thorough press review coming from Canada's daily newspapers and over 400 regional and local news sources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://educationnewscanada.com/article/education/level/university/1/1050327/-if-something-can-be-de... |
| Description | BTCC Project Launched at the British Association for American Studies 2021 Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An hour-long full project description and introduction delivered by Zoom delivered to the 2021 BAAS conference attendees (350+) introducing each of the project members and wider team and that set out the project aims, explained each of the work packages and suggested ways whereby various scholarly and other groups could engage further with project aims and activities. Please see the full permanent recording below which is permanently available on the project website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clBjViEdJMc |
| Description | BTCC hosted a workshop to beta-test and evaluate the AHRC-funded TSRG Kinetic Map 'Indigenous Worlds: A Kinetic Map of Northeastern America 1600-1800' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter and Co-I Prior hosted a hybrid Workshop Symposium at The Rothermere American Institute, Oxford for invited digital humanities scholars, practitioners, and commercial leaders on Friday 21st April 2023. The group beta-tested and evaluated the AHRC-funded TSRG BTCC Kinetic Map 'Indigenous Worlds: A Kinetic Map of Northeastern America 1600-1800', a dynamic map animation produced in collaboration with King's Digital Lab. The map will be launched Spring, 2024 and is the first of three primary digital outputs from the 'Brightening the Covenant Chain' AHRC STG. The aim of the workshop was to gain vital feedback from scholars and indigenous contacts. Following the workshop BTCC Co-I Prior collaborated with the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum Manager to ensure the map content is accurate. This created a highly positive and ever-expanding relationship with the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum and they would like to showcase the completed map in the museum. The Kinetic Map has generated unprecedented interest from Indigenous communities, museums and heritage sites, education providers and exam boards. We are working with these Indigenous heritage partners to apply for follow on funding for the BTCC project to disseminate the Kinetic Map throughout North-eastern America, Canada and Europe. Through a range of educational and creative engagements with new Indigenous and North American user communities we aim to utilise this ground breaking digital tool to centre Indigenous peoples and their experiences, challenge outdated American colonial history narratives, and provide educators, students, and the wider public with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures. The map will be launched in Spring 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | BTCC hosted the 'Connected Nations: Indigenous Rights and the Royal Proclamation of 1763' symposium at Queen's University, Canada |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 'Connected Nations: Indigenous Rights and the Royal Proclamation of 1763' organised by Co-I Prior and BTCC International CO-I Walters at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada and online via Zoom from 6 -7 October 2023. Funded by the AHRC BTCC project, with additional support from the University's QR Policy Fund, it marks the 260th anniversary of a highly contested document with a complex place in the diplomatic, legal and inter-cultural history of North-eastern America. 'Connected Nations' marked the 260th anniversary of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, a document with a complex place in the diplomatic, legal and inter-cultural history of Northeastern North America. The Proclamation has always been considered pivotal, originally as an apparent affirmation of Native rights and latterly as a mechanism that - it is argued - helped to institutionalize the narrowing and erosion of those rights in Canadian public law. Our aim was to reconsider this document, its history, and its legacy against recent developments in the legal and cultural contexts of Indigenous rights, relations between nations, and the search for reconciliation. Presentations from scholars and practitioners and live Q&As and discussions between sessions. A live stream event with 90 plus registered attendees. The symposium was advertised on the Royal Historical Society events page, Canadian Historical Association, Eventbrite, British Association for American Studies gaining lots of interest. (https://royalhistsoc.org/calendar/connected-nations-indigenous-rights-and-the-royal-proclamation-of-1763-symposium/, https://baas.ac.uk/news-and-events/2023/09/connected-nations-indigenous-rights-2/) The symposium also included an unusual element of performance art by beading across a copy of the Royal Proclamation of 1763. The resultant art piece brings together beadwork traditions, while simultaneously reflecting the complexity of their relationships to one another and to colonial law. The aim was to physically alter and reclaim the visual record/legal material object of the text of the Proclamation. This was a unique and modern way of presentation at a symposium and caused some controversy amongst some leading scholars in the field. We are in the process of putting together a proposal for a publication in McGill-Queen's University Press. Since the symposium the TSRG team have been assisting one of the Indigenous presenters (Anishinaabe-Métis) in applying to be a 2025 British Academy Global Professor with PI Porter as the PI host. The team have had discussions regarding further events with some of the Indigenous scholars and ways in which the BTCC project can help their Nations education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/2023/08/22/connected-nations-indigenous-rights-and-the-royal-proclamation... |
| Description | Brightening the Covenant Chain Project Website Launched |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A extensive interactive project website specifically designed to disseminate information linked to project events and to engage on multiple levels with diverse sectors including the public, scholarly communities and others. One key aim was for website visitors to engage with the project team either through the exhibition, plenary workshop, Zooniverse people-powered research platform, Kinetic Map, other linked project events or through contacting the Project Administrator directly. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://www.treatiedspaces.com |
| Description | Celeste Pedri-Spade Exhibition Artists' Residency - The American Museum & Gardens, Bath UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The exhibition and residency opened with a gala event at the American Museum & Gardens, attended by the Brightening the Covenant Chain advisory board, museum trustees, patrons and donors, along with the Lord Mayor of Bath and members of the community, as well as Investigators Porter, Prior, Walters, and PDRA Wong. During the residency, Dr Pedri-Spade and her husband Rob offered a series of interactive workshops on fashion, dance, music and culture to a series of local Schools and a large number of gallery visitors. She also offered a series of training seminars to AMG staff on the presentation of Indigenous material culture. The American Museum & Gardens carried out visitor interviews and impact data capture which has been made available to the BTCC team. The BTCC team carried out an interview with the Art and Photography Technician who visited with pupils from Ralph Allen School attending the exhibition and an interactive workshop. The workshop involved the students creating paintings and expressing themselves through painting, the artist spoke of Indigenous Tribes, history, culture and the strong women in his life, played music, played drums, sang and showed some of his own artworks. The students discussed the use of natural form, i.e. bark, different fabrics, materials and bright colours and how they could incorporate natural forms, different fabrics and materials into their own work. One very positive aspect of the above work was the facilitation of Indigenous direct relationships with UK schools. This is transforming the learning experience of UK schoolchildren and alter how the Indigenous world is portrayed within UK schools. The school reported a change in some of the students work taking on the natural form since the workshop. UoH Impact & Knowledge Exchange funding has been applied for by PI Porter and awarded to the value of 2k. This will support one week of Impact data gathering at AM&G in March 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Co-I Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) appears in Prospect Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A review of Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) Best Books of the Year: History in Prospect Magazine. Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's book review in Prospect Magazine is likely to have reached a large segment of its 18,510 circulation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/books-of-the-year-history |
| Description | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) appears in New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's book Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) appears in New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022 Chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review Nov. 22, 2022 In addition to the 8.6 million digital subscribers and 740,000 paid print subscribers it appeared on various websites enhancing the impact on book sales, some examples below: https://bookriot.com/the-new-york-times-releases-100-notable-books-for-2022/ https://booksofbrilliance.com/2023/02/02/the-100-best-books-of-2022-according-to-the-new-york-times/ https://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/collections/nyt-100-notable-books-2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/22/books/notable-books.html |
| Description | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) appears in New York Times article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A video interview and review by Jennifer Schuessler a culture reporter at The New York Times titled "A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History". In "Indigenous Continent," Pekka Hamalainen aims to upend the nation's grand narrative, putting Native people and Native power at the center. A version of the article appeared in print on Sept. 22, 2022, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Book Aims To Recast The Native Narrative. This article reached The New York Times 8.6 million digital readers and 740,000 print subscribers and has 96 comments from readers. The article also refers to Pekka's first book, "The Comanche Empire" published in 2009 which garnered strong reviews and numerous prizes, including the Bancroft Prize. https://www.history.ucsb.edu/2009/09/20/prof-hamalainens-the-comanche-empire-indeed-garners-its-twelfth-award/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/arts/indigenous-continent-pekka-hamalainen.html |
| Description | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) appears in Pacific Historial Review, University of California Press |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BTCC Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen 'Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power' is reviewed in Pacific Historial Review, University of California Press Volume 91, Issue 4, Fall 2022. A review by Jeffrey Means, University of Wyoming. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://online.ucpress.edu/phr/article-abstract/91/4/574/194106/Review-Lakota-America-A-New-History-... |
| Description | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) appears in Publishers Weekly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BTCC Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) is reviewed in Publishers Weekly. Reaching an online audience of 14 million annual unique users and 68,000 in print. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781631496998 |
| Description | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) appears in The Atlantic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | David Waldstreicher, Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York reviews Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) in December 2022 in The Atlantic. Reaching some 833,000 subscribers and increasing book sales. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/12/native-american-history-indigenous-continent-pekka... |
| Description | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) appears in The Wall Street Journal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BTCC Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) is reviewed in The Wall Street Journal. This review is likely to have reached a large segment of its 3.7 million circulation. The Wall Street Journal is a daily newspaper, with new editions being published six days a week, meaning that this average circulation figure essentially amounts to daily readership. Extrapolating further, daily print readership stands at 654 thousand copies, while daily digital circulation reached over three million. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.wsj.com/articles/indigenous-continent-book-review-america-the-not-so-new-world-116633427... |
| Description | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) features in Bloomberg |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CO-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) features in Bloomberg "Best Nonfiction of 2022: Great Books That Will Make You Think". A review by Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist who is a professor of law at Yale University and was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. This review is likely to have reached a large segment of Bloomberg's 450,000 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-25/best-nonfiction-of-2022-great-books-that-will-... |
| Description | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) features in Indies tijdschrift (Indies Magazine) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Indies Magazine features Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) following the editors reading an interview in NRC. (Post)colonial history and culture are everywhere; in novels, monologues, pamphlets, performances, films and exhibitions, in scientific and non-scientific research and legal battles. But often there is a lack of understanding of the context, of memory. The national media largely ignores the subject, or follows the biggest mouths. They employ journalists with no prior knowledge in this field - there has been a sharp cut back on specialists, and on book and culture supplements in general. This leads to frustration in circles of people who know more about it, because of professional or experience expertise. Indian magazine offers a stage to the expertise that does exist, and the richness of what is now largely ignored. It is aimed at all interested and/or professionally involved readers. The magazine's name, 'Indies magazine', and its subtitle, 'Krities en independenik', follow the idiosyncratic spelling of the great Indian writer and critic E. du Perron. In his mind the leaf is made. Quite an ambition, but with the best thinkers in this field in our ranks, we have a long way to go. 'Indies' in this case also stands for the West, the Indies and les Indes : we count the whole world as our territory, and we don't limit ourselves to history either: colonialism has never disappeared. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.perfectmanage.eu/sites/14/3104/0/publications/nieuws-2023/nieuwe-kijk-op-de-kolonisatie-... |
| Description | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) features in Kirkus Reviews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A review of Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) by Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus has an average of 2.6 million views per month and 65,000 subscribers who receive a newsletter. Kirkus Reviews Magazine has a circulation of 15,000 and has a readership base that includes librarians, booksellers, and publishing professionals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/pekka-hamalainen/indigenous-continent |
| Description | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) features in Library Journal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A review of Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) by David Keymer in the Library Journal. This review is likely to have reached a substantial amount of Library Journal's 100,000 readers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/indigenous-continent-the-epic-contest-for-north-america-215314... |
| Description | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) features in NRC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | NRC is a daily morning newspaper published in the Netherlands by NRC Media. The readers of NRC are affluent and well-educated. They have a strong interest in economic matters, art, literature and the sciences and turn to the paper as a trusted source. An interview with BTCC Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's on his National Bestseller book Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022). The article is likely to have reached a large segment of its 362,000 readers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www-nrc-nl.translate.goog/nieuws/2023/01/12/de-inheemse-kant-van-het-verhaal-de-krachtige-im... |
| Description | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) features in Times Literary Supplement, "Books of the Year 2022" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) feature in the Times Literary Supplement "Books of the Year 2022" where their contributors select their favourite books of 2022. Reaching 38,000 readers. Readers of the TLS are mature (average age 60), affluent (average household income £68,000) and well educated (92% have a University Degree and 34% have a Doctorate). 45% live in Europe and 32% in North America. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/tls-books-of-the-year-2022/ |
| Description | Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) features in Washington Post, Review by Ned Blackhawk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Washington Post, book review by Ned Blackhawk, an enrolled member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada and the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. His most recent work, "The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History," will be released in April. Reaching 71 million digital readers and 159,000 print circulation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/10/05/indigenous-continent-pekka-hamalainen-review/ |
| Description | Dr Charles Prior interviewed by New Diplomatic History in its podcast series on his 2020 Cambridge University Press book, Settlers in Indian Country |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Charles Prior was interviewed by New Diplomatic History in its podcast series 'Diplomatica'. The podcast is available on all major podcast platforms to the general public and reaches over 1 million worldwide. The Network for New Diplomatic History is a group of scholars whose work focuses broadly on the historical study of diplomats, their methods, and their cultural, political and social milieux. Diplomatic history as a discipline is now being rediscovered as historians have become more receptive to trends in cultural studies, to advances in the social sciences, and to the mutual incorporation of state and non-state actors into the study of global, international, and transnational history. This in turn is transforming our understanding of 'diplomacy' and the identity of 'the diplomat'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://anchor.fm/newdiplomatichistory/episodes/Charles-Prior-on-Native-American-treaties-10-2021-e1... |
| Description | Expert Interview by PI with Alliance Business School, University of Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joy Porter collaborated with the NHS Leadership Programme Doctorate in Clinical Science within the Alliance Business School, University of Manchester, discussing 'Forms of Indigenous Leadership, Matrilineal and Matrifocal Governance'. Lawrence Benson, Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Management commented that 'this presentation will serve as a valuable resource' for leadership training, particularly as a contrast with dominant, Western-oriented leadership discourses. This work communicated historical research associated with this grant beyond the normal peer group associated with disciplinary history, created new scholarly and public networks and helped contextualize leadership thinking in NHS contexts within a much broader, Indigenous set of trans-historical frameworks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.alliancembs.manchester.ac.uk/?gclid=CjwKCAjw8sCRBhA6EiwA6_IF4emCOpZR7GWUksSvUXE5lLoV30PS... |
| Description | Impact Evaluation of Dress to Redress Exhibition by Dr Celeste Pedri-Spade at The American Museums and Gardens |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BTCC Treatied Spaces Research Group (TSRG) hosted a series of focus groups and generated qualitative and quantitative Impact data with American Museum & Gardens (AM&G) staff, volunteers and visitors to evaluate the reach and significance of the range of impacts resulting from the 2022 Museum Exhibition, 'Dress to Redress: Exploring Native American Material Culture' and the associated international Indigenous Artists Residency (total AHRC investment 102K). The exhibition was co-organised by the Treatied Spaces Research Group (TSRG) and the American Museum & Gardens, Bath as part of the 3-year AHRC-funded "Brightening the Covenant Chain" Standard Research Grant project (941k, 2021-2024). Targeted focus group work with Museum staff, volunteers, and others to generate a database of evidence revealing how the exhibition has impacted public perception of North American Indigenous culture and how it has demonstrably changed and shaped AM&G policy, training and practices regarding the display of Indigenous material culture. BTCC also carried out targeted work with Museum Trustees and the wider curatorial and museum sector linked to AM&G to generate quotations and digital recorded evidence demonstrating how this exhibition has changed AM&G strategic planning for future exhibition programmes, and how this Exhibition and Indigenous Artist's Residency has worked to establish this UK museum as a model for Indigenizing museum spaces. American Museums and Gardens carried out audience research on the Dress to Redress Exhibition which was conducted by The Audience Agency (TAA) and includes visitor experiences and comments, evaluation of local population statistics and visitor audiences and recommendations. A Visitor Journey Mapping (VJM) was conducted (detailed in separate report) to which a random sample of visitors had an unguided visit followed by a 45min-1hour interview. The surveys showed an Exhibition attendance of 6,300 and the surveys were carried out on 80 member of the public. The median majority of visitors scored over 70% for concept, captivation, relevance, presentation, enthusiasm and insight. 72% (out of 25 responses) had some understanding and knew of Indigenous people and 16% had a good understanding. After experience the exhibition, 58% had a good understanding and 33% had some understanding. Prior to the exhibition, 48% had a good understanding on history of colonialism and 36% had some understanding, after the exhibition 58% had a good understanding on the history of colonialism and 25% had some understanding. 84% will or have talked about this exhibition to other people - friends, family and colleagues. 50% (out of 22 responses) stated their attitudes towards the themes covered in the Dress to Redress exhibition has changed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Indigenous artist Celeste Pedri-Spade Workshops in Schools, Bath |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with the The Brightening the Covenant Chain research team (BTCC) prject collaborator Anishinabekwe artist Celeste Pedri-Spade carried out workshops with two local schools in Bath, UK whilst her 'Dress to Redress: Exploring Native American Culture' Material Kwe exhibition was underway at the American Museum & Gardens. Celeste carried out two interactive workshops on fashion, dance, music and culture to local Schools. Celeste delivered historically accurate information and spoke about her artistic process, working with textiles, and celebrating the inspirational women in her community and using fashion to explore how stories and experiences of Indigenous and European women both connect and disconnect. She talked of the powerful role that women have played in their communities. One very positive aspect of the above work was the facilitation of Indigenous direct relationships with UK schools. This is transforming the learning experience of UK schoolchildren. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://americanmuseum.org/whats-on/past-exhibitions/dress-to-redress/ |
| Description | International Hybrid Conference: 'Cultures of Indigenous Diplomacy', 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | International online conference and global audience panel discussion 'Cultures of Indigenous Diplomacy' was successfully delivered to augment and expand the reach of the exhibition and residency of Anishinabekwe visual artist Dr Celeste Pedri-Spade at the American Museum and Gardens in Bath UK, March - July 2022. The conference was attended online by over 100 international participants, with Project Investigators Porter, Prior and Walters physically in attendance in Bath alongside Dr Pedri-Spade, her husband Robert (Indigenous dancer and educator) and their small family. All presentations are permanently available on our YouTube channel. The predominantly Indigenous Presenters included: 1. Alex Jacobs-Blum, Artist and Curator, Lower Cayuga Nation of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and German, "Finding my way back through visual storytelling" 2. Rick Powless, Six Nations, Red Seal Chef: "yakunhéhkw?: Our Sisters", a cooking demonstration of Haudenosaunee traditional foods. 3. Great Lakes Research Alliance, Heidi Bohaker, Alan Corbiere, Autumn Epple, Bradley Clements): "Great Lakes Diplomacy through Cultural Heritage" 4. Damien Lee, Anishinaabe from Fort William FN, Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Biskaabiiyang and Indigenous Political Resurgence: "Asunjigun and Anishinaabe Political Theory" 5. Ken Parker, Seneca Nation, Indigenous horticulturalist and landscape professional: "Food Sovereignty and the Power of Indigenous Planting" 6. Dale Turner, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto "Indigenous Spirituality in the Legal-Political Discourses of the State" 7. Celeste Pedri-Spade, Associate Professor and Queen's National Scholar in Indigenous Studies, Queen's University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkP_ZmIkuSk&list=PL63UWqSbpHFfXiPUw5ZncaYb92BwyzYHX&t=6s |
| Description | Joy Porter on Newshour, BBC World Service's flagship radio news programme, talking about the Native American textbook controversy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter appeared on BBC Radio Newshour with James Coomarasamy (see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hExltT9HHag) in the wake of a media storm over historical mis-representation of Indigenous history within UK schools and by UK Exam Boards: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-59024961. Porter's feature on BBC Radio Newshour is likely to have reached a large segment of its 3.1 million US listeners and BBC World Service weekly audience of around 279 million people around the world. The latter is one of the UK's most important cultural exports and a quarter of the weekly global audience is aged between 15 and 24. BTCC Intern also produced a video powerpoint of the same theme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-59024961 As a result of the BBC Newshour interview by the project PI, she was approached by the major multinational publisher of UK history textbooks and by two UK Exam Boards with a view to establishing an ongoing Knowledge Exchange partnership developing and improving the representation and understanding of the Indigenous world within UK schools provision and exams, notably teaching on The American West at Key Stage 3 and A-Level. This collaboration partnership is covered by a confidentiality agreement. A third outcome of this collaboration as it related to schools outreach was the award of Research England QR 2022 Policy Support Fund monies (13,486k) to the PI to fund work by a PDRA to translate the above into policy advice for the Department of Education, Ofsted and Ofqual. This work is to include production of a series of papers summarising the importance of the "breadth" component within UK US History provision and production of policy responses to the subject specifications reform process as it develops in relation to key stakeholders. In each of the above pieces of work, a productive multidisciplinary lens was applied. The outreach materials, media engagement and knowledge exchange each benefitted significantly from the expertise of the interdisciplinary, international, cross-cultural team. One very positive aspect of the above work was the facilitation of Indigenous direct relationships with UK schools, a UK museum and UK educational providers with Indigenous peoples themselves. This is already transforming understanding at the levels of educational leadership, museum practice, and educational policy as well as, most importantly, the learning experience of UK schoolchildren. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hExltT9HHag |
| Description | Joy Porter spoke to BBC Radio Bristol's John Darvall on the segment 'Your Questions' on 'Did Native Americans have birth certificates before going on reservations and Did Sitting Bull have one?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Joy Porter discusses Indigenous Birth Certificates on BBC Radio Bristol. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/2022/12/20/indigenous-birth-certificates/ |
| Description | PI Joy Porter spoke to Stig Abell about the story of Pocahontas, on Times Radio Breakfast. 'Pocahontas and Pop Media' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | PI Joy Porter spoke to Stig Abell about the story of Pocahontas, on Times Radio Breakfast. 'Pocahontas and Pop Media'. PI Porter's feature on Times Radio Breakfast is likely to have reached a large segment of its 563,000 weekly listeners. Reaching a further audience via Treatied Spaces Research Group Youtube channel and their website https://treatiedspaces.com/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xjq99Uib_w |
| Description | PI Porter BBC assists TV show The Repair Shop in identifying Indigenous artefacts and materials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter was contacted by BBC TV show The Repair Shop, helping them identify Indigenous artefacts and materials. The item in question was a hat which belonged to someone who was born in Pennsylvania 1947 to parents from Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes. PI Porter provided some information on the Choctaw tribes and relevant links. The Repair Shop has an audience of 6.7 million and won the 2023 National Television Awards in the daytime programme category. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | PI Porter Podcast for Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On War & Society E42: A Curious Case of Shell Shock with Joy Porter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://studyofcanada.ca/on-war-society-podcast-a-curious-case-of-shell-shock-with-joy-porter/ |
| Description | PI Porter Presented Mayflower Lecture at University of Plymouth titled Recentering Indigenous Foodways and Food Sovereignty |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | With Professor Joy Porter and Dr Tabitha Robin (Martens) Food is the foundation for life. Using the past to inform the present, this webinar will explore Indigenous foodways and the politics of food sovereignty across deep time in North America. Featuring exceptional new scholarship from the mixed ancestry Cree researcher, educator and writer Dr Tabitha Robin (Martens) and Professor Joy Porter, Project Lead of the Treatied Spaces Research Cluster at the University of Hull. Join this presentation to explore how food has always determined key aspects of settler/indigenous relationships |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.visitplymouth.co.uk/whats-on/re-centering-indigenous-foodways-and-food-sovereignty-in-no... |
| Description | PI Porter Presented at Institute for Global Prosperity on Indigenous Environmental History and Its Relevance to Future Prosperity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The world is grappling with a number of widespread and indeterminate risks that we ourselves created. Perhaps the most fundamental risk to our wellbeing as the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds is Natural Producer Extinction- the irreversible loss of ecosystem services as a result of human consumption levels and numbers. According to the World Wildlife Fund, since 1970, there has been a 68% decline in birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles and fish. It is thought that a sixth mass extinction is now occurring on earth. According to UN estimates, a quarter of all species are set to disappear, many within decades. Indigenous peoples have a central role to play and profound lessons to share as the world tackles "wicked" problems of this sort. Indigenous peoples safeguard 80% of the world's remaining biodiversity and occupy or use a quarter of the world's surface area. The challenge of addressing Indigenous land and resource claims and upholding existing tenure rights is key to achieving biodiversity objectives on about a third of the Global Safety Net- the estimated total land area we need to protect in order to offset the repercussions of climate change. As this lecture will show, the vital work of helping to restore global biodiversity is just one aspect of many lessons available from a resurgent and inherently diverse Indigenous world. The Speaker: Joy Porter, Professor of Indigenous & Environmental History, Co-PI of the Treatied Spaces Research Group, University of Hull Professor Joy Porter is an interdisciplinary researcher of indigenous history in relation to the environment, war, modernity, and culture. She is Principal Investigator within the Treatied Spaces Research Group (treatiedspaces.com) at the University of Hull which manages over 2.3M in external research grants. She works closely with UoH's Energy & Environment Institute and the Wilberforce Institute for Slavery & Emancipation. She is PI Host for British Academy Global Professor Gregory Smithers, 2020-2024, working on "Native Ecologies: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Climate Change". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAoxW5Eclju6_g2G4pIL85A/featured |
| Description | PI Porter appeared on BBC Radio Bristol discussing Totem Poles |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter answers a listener's question about Totem Poles on BBC Radio Bristol. BBC Radio Bristol has a weekly audience of 113,000. The recording is available on the TSRG website which recorded 1229 new users in January 2024 and we reached 55 views on Youtube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i17lDOasDk |
| Description | PI Porter appeared on The Globalist, Monocle Radio discussing the fallout of Australia's Indigenous Voice referendum. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter appeared on The Globalist, Monocle Radio on 24th October 2023 discussing the fallout of Australia's Indigenous Voice referendum. The Globalist reaches an audience of 1 million plus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-globalist/3186/play/ |
| Description | PI Porter appeared on The Monocle Daily discussing Australia's new treaty with the Indigenous peoples of Tuvalu in the Pacific |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Joy Porter discussed Australia's new treaty with the Indigenous peoples of Tuvalu in the Pacific in an interview with Andrew Mueller for The Monocle Daily, 10 November 2023 (Episode 2637). https://treatiedspaces.com/2023/11/15/australias-new-treaty-with-indigenous-people-of-tavulu/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-monocle-daily/2637/ |
| Description | PI Porter appeared on the Military Historians are People Too podcast with Bill Allison and Brian Feltman |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter discusses Trauma and the Life of Frank Prewett on the Military Historians are People Too podcast. The show discusses the writing process and her book Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War (Bloomsbury, 2021). MHPT Podcast is available on Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Amazon Music, Radio Public, Pocket Casts, Overcast. The episode is available on the TSRG website which recorded 1229 new users in January 2024, the MHPT Podcast website and Youtube page reaching a high number of listeners. The episode has received 28 views on the MHPT Youtube page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s4e05-joy-porter-university-of-hull/id1595145939?i=10006307921... |
| Description | PI Porter appeared on Talk TV discussing Martin Scorsese's new film Killers of the Flower Moon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A look ahead to Martin Scorsese's new film set and produced on Osage territory. Joy Porter spoke with Kevin O'Sullivan on Talk TV, 27 May 2023. Talk TV reaches a wide audience with around 2 million monthly listeners. A link to the Talk TV recording is included on the TSRG website and Youtube page. The website recorded 1229 new users in January 2024 and we reached 62 views on Youtube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/2023/05/28/killers-flower/ |
| Description | PI Porter appears on Talk TV discussing 'This is Colonialism' museum exhibition controversy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter appeared on Talk TV discussing new 'This Is Colonialism' The Zeche Zollern museum in Dortmund (GDR) exhibition controversy, 15 Sept. 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/2023/09/18/this-is-colonialism/ |
| Description | PI Porter features in Network in Canadian History & Environment (NICHE), Call for Authors: Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research Book Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter features on Network in Canadian History & Environment [NICHE] to showcase the Treatied Spaces Research Group's CUP book series 'Cambridge Elements: Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research'. Looking to publish a short book with Cambridge University Press on any aspect of Indigenous Environmental Research? If so, get in touch with the editors of Cambridge University Press's new series Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research. It offers state-of-the-art interdisciplinary analyses within the rapidly growing area of Indigenous environmental research. The series investigates how environmental issues and processes relate to Indigenous socio-economic, cultural, and political dynamics. Series editors of Cambridge Elements are: Joy Porter is Professor of Environmental and Indigenous History at the University of Hull, Principal Investigator for "Brightening the Covenant Chain; Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos; Clint Carroll is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, he works at the intersections of Indigenous studies, anthropology, and political ecology. Associate Editor: Matthias Wong is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Treatied Spaces Research Group at the University of Hull. A key aim of the series is to be both global in scope and highly interdisciplinary, covering a range of issues, including water politics, Indigenous geographies of health & disease, bioprospecting and resource extraction, methodologies and approaches, ecologies of sovereignty, climate justice and activism, geopolitics, and Indigenous territories, mobilities, migration and societal change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://niche-canada.org/2022/11/16/call-for-authors-elements-in-indigenous-environmental-research-b... |
| Description | PI Porter features in Research Professional News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter's interview 'My winning proposal: Time well spent' appears in Research Professional News UK. Joy Porter reflects on two-year build up to an AHRC Standard Research Grant win. Likely to have reached a high number of its 360,000 members worldwide. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-insight-2022-12-my-winning-proposal-time-well-sp... |
| Description | PI Porter reviews Martin McDonagh's film 'The Banshees of Inisherin' in The Spectator |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter's review of 'The Banshees of Inisherin' by Martin McDonagh in The Spectator reached a large segment of the international journal magazine's 75 million online audience and 106,905 magazine subscribers. The article discussed treaties, the key theme of the BTCC project grant. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-dangerous-myth-making-in-the-banshees-of-inisherin/ |
| Description | PI Porter spoke on BBC Radio 4 Women's Hour about Matrilineal Communities. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A high proportion of BBC Radio 4 Women's Hour weekly 3.7 million listeners listened to PI Joy Porter talk about matrilineal communities who trace kinship through the female line and can involve the inheritance of property and titles. PI Joy Porter and Dr. Mariaelena Huambachano, Environmental Humanities, Native American and Indigenous Studies at Syracuse University. Available to listen to on BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001bcn9. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tjV71tyPTo |
| Description | PI Porter spoke with BBC Radio Bristol's John Darvall about Indigenous naming practices. Indigenous Naming Practices. 'Indigenous Matrilineal Communities' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BBC Radio Bristol's John Darvall asked PI Joy Porter 'How do native American's come up with these wonderfully descriptive, evocative names'. Discussions regarding tribal names and individual people's names. Often tribes would give names to children that were primitive and then given names by Clan mothers or elders that link to their role, these can be inherited and can be to do with their role within the community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs_FUHgIuR4&t=1s |
| Description | PI Porter was interviewed by BBC Newshour on the legacy of Gumatj leader Yunupingu, who led campaigns for the restoration of First Nations land in Australia. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Joy Porter contributes to a BBC Newshour report about the life and legacy of Yunupingu, one of the most prominent and influential Indigenous leaders of the past half century in Australia. The Gumatj leader campaigned for the restoration of First Nations land. Aired on the BBC World Service, 3 April 2023. BBC Radio reaches 31.7 million people each week. A link to the Newshour report is included on the TSRG website and Youtube page. The website recorded 1229 new users in January 2024 and we reached 69 views on Youtube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://treatiedspaces.com/2023/04/03/legacy-of-yunupingu-gumatj/ |
| Description | PI Porter was invited to attend and moderate a session on 'Alternative Legal Regimes: Private Networks, Public Goods' at the Harvard Law School Stewardship, Communitarianism and (Intellectual) Property Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter was moderator for the Stewardship, Communitarianism and (Intellectual) Property: The Philosophical Foundations of Traditional Knowledge Protection, held at Harvard Law School (HLS) on 14 April 2023. The seminar addressed competing frameworks and philosophies for the protection of traditional knowledge assets. Speakers and participants debated alternative visions of the common good, including competing conceptions of the public domain and the political economy of global knowledge governance. Hosted by the HLS Project on Biblical Stewardship and Traditional Knowledge and Professor Ruth Okediji, the programme included a keynote by Professor Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University. PI Porter was invited back to Harvard in February 2024 to give a talk at the "Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Knowledge, and Intellectual Property in International Law" conference. Attendance at the seminar extended PI Porters knowledge of treaties and intellectual property and she was able to meet with a collaborative doctoral award candidate (Montgomery Simus) who subsequently joined the research group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | PI Porter's review of Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) features in BBC History Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter's review of Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) reached the BBC History Magazine's 85,299 readers. Also available to read via Scribd, Readly GB and Buysubscriptions.com therefore extending the reader numbers. Also features in Canada's Anglo Celtic Connections. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.anglocelticconnections.ca/2023/01/05/bbc-history-magazine-january-2023/ |
| Description | PI Porter's review of Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) features in History Today |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A review of Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 2022) BY PI Joy Porter was published in History Today Volume 73 Issue 1 January 2023. History Today is the world's leading serious history magazine with 50,000 readers and 13,400 paid subscribers. website contains an unrivalled and ever-growing archive of over 12,000 articles dating back to 1951. The archive is a popular resource used by students, researchers and academics as well as history enthusiasts. With over a million pageviews per month, History Today online has established itself as one of the finest resources for historical research on the internet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/powerful-inversion |
| Description | PI Porter, Co-I Prior and PDRA Gillespie attended the Queen's University Polishing the Chain ceremony, Thanyehténhas Nathan Brinklow, BTCC collaborator spoke on behalf of the Indigenous community in Kanyen'kéha (Mohawk) and English and delivered a condolence speech. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter, Co-I Prior and PDRA Gillespie attended the Queen's University Polishing the Chain ceremony. Thanyehténhas Nathan Brinklow, Director of the Indigenous Studies Program and collaborator on Brightening the Covenant Chain spoke on behalf of the Indigenous community in Kanyen'kéha (Mohawk) and English and delivered a condolence speech. BTCC Co-I Walters also attended the event. The TSRG team met with Senior leaders, Queen's senators, staff, faculty, students, and Indigenous community members including Grandmother Kathy Brant who showed particular interest in working with the TSRG on the BTCC project. https://treatiedspaces.com/2023/10/24/polishing-the-chain-ceremony/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/reaffirming-continuing-relationships-between-indigenous-commu... |
| Description | PI Porter, Co-I Prior and PDRA Wong showcased the BTCC project at the British Association for American Studies annual conference 2022 "Exhibiting Indigenous Fashion, Generating People-Powered Research, Producing Kinetic Maps & Soundscapes: The Brightening the Covenant Chain Project." |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PI Porter, Co-I Prior and PDRA Wong showcase the Brightening the Covenant Chain Projects six major outcomes. These include: A film featuring Iroquois artist Haohyoh (Ken Maracle, Deer Clan, Lower Cayuga Longhouse, Grand River) making a Gasweh:da or Friendship Belt for BTCC project. The film was produced in the spirit of once again 'brightening' the Covenant Chain between the Haudenosaunee and the British Crown. Ken explains the meanings of the Wampum belts features. Dress to Redress: Exploring Native American Material Culture featuring work from Material Kwe by Dr Celeste Pedri-Spade, The American Museum & Gardens, Bath UK. International online conference and global audience panel discussion 'Cultures of Indigenous Diplomacy' was successfully delivered to augment and expand the reach of the exhibition and residency of Anishinabekwe visual artist Dr Celeste Pedri-Spade at the American Museum and Gardens in Bath UK, March - July 2022. The conference was attended online by over 100 international participants, with Project Investigators Porter, Prior and Walters physically in attendance in Bath alongside Dr Pedri-Spade, her husband Robert (Indigenous dancer and educator) and their small family. All presentations are permanently available on our YouTube channel. The conference spawned additional collaborations: an AHRC Indigenous Methods Research Grant application on 'Food is Our Medicine' in collaboration with the Seneca community, and an ongoing collaboration with The Great Lakes Research Alliance (GRASAC), which is informing PDRA Wong's project on Indigenous representation in cultural and heritage contexts. PI Porter was invited to appear on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss matrilineal communities. Dr Pedri-Spade received invitations to exhibit in the Netherlands, and was appointed to a new leadership role as Associate Provost for Indigenous Initiatives at McGill University, Montreal. To access the individual presentations, please click on the links below. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1sfGfsXF0o |
| Description | Professor Gregory Smithers reviews Ned Blackhawk, 'The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History' in H-Net Network on American Indian Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Treatied Spaces Research Group British Academy Global Professor, Gregory Smithers reviews Ned Blackhawk, 'The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History' review on H-Net Network on American Indian Studies. His review also includes BTCC Co-I Pekka Hämäläinen published Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America which Ned Blackhawk had previously reviewed. H Net has over 200,000 subscribers in 90 countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20019021/smithers-blackhawk-rediscovery-america-native-peop... |
| Description | Rebecca Slatcher chaired the first event of the new BL discussion group Indigenous Ways in Librarianship, 'Discussing Cultural Humility' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An online event chaired by Rebecca Slatcher a final year AHRC CDP PhD candidate with the University of Hull's Treatied Spaces research group and the British Library. Her PhD focuses on the British Library's books in North American Indigenous languages (post 1850) from the perspective of how the holdings have been collected and catalogued. Her research has benefited from a BAAS funded placement at the American Philosophical Society, and an AHRC International Placement at the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institute. This is a UK based group which aims to engage new audiences with Indigenous contributions in librarianship. We aim to discuss how these practices inform the care for, and access to, materials related to Indigenous peoples and how these practices might be extended to collections that have been, and continue to be, geographically distanced from their communities and/or place of origin. We hope this group grows awareness of the importance and variety of Indigenous library and print practices, makes relevant collections visible, and invites collaborations. Talking to Sarah Kostelecky, Lori Townsend, and David Hurley about cultural humility and their upcoming edited volume Hopeful Visions, Practical Actions: Cultural Humility in Library Work. Cultural humility offers a renewing and transformative framework for navigating interpersonal interactions in libraries, whether between patrons and staff or staff members with one another. It foregrounds a practice of critical self-reflection and commitment to recognising and redressing structural inequities and problematic power imbalances. Join for a conversation that explores what cultural humility means in Indigenous contexts and how it can be used as a critical framework and process in library work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultural-humility-with-sarah-kostelecky-lori-townsend-and-david-hurley-... |
| Description | TSRG -British Library-AHRC CDA candidate Rebecca Slatcher presented at the State University of New York conference "New Directions in Indigenous Book History" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 'The Legacies of James Pilling's Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians in the Library' Treatied Spaces Research Group-British Library-AHRC CDA candidate Rebecca Slatcher presented her paper "Searching for Indigenous Language Books in the British Library: The Legacies of James Pilling's Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians" at the prestigious State University of New York conference sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, "New Directions in Indigenous Book History," online symposium on Thursday, 23 March 2023. https://treatiedspaces.com/2022/12/20/the-legacies-of-james-pillings-bibliography-of-the-languages-of-the-north-american-indians-in-the-library-online-23-march-2023/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://new-directions-in-indigenous-book-history.mailchimpsites.com/program-schedule |
| Description | University of Hull screening of Haohyoh (Ken Maracle) making a replica Haudenosaunee Friendship wampum belt for the AHRC project Brightening the Covenant Chain, Research Fest 13th January 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The second festival at The University of Hull screening the BTCC AHRC project 60 minute educational documentary made in collaboration with Haohyoh, Ken Maracle, a faith keeper of the Lower Cayuga Longhouse and a member of the Cayuga Nation, Iroquois Confederacy, Deer Clan. To celebrate the research, and to acknowledge the great work our researchers do, The University Research Fest took place on 13th January 2023 in Middleton Hall and other venues across campus and hosted a range of activities. Ken has been making reproduction Wampum Belts for more than 30 years and because of his strong collaborative relationship with the BTCC team, agreed to make a bespoke wampum friendship belt onscreen for the BTCC extended project team as an instructional tool. The film shows Ken making the special 'Brightening the Covenant Chain' belt on location at Chiefswood Park, New York a 20 acre site along the Grand River close to Chiefswood National Historic Site. The film is available to watch on the Treatied Spaces Research Group website and Youtube page and has had 1,000 views on Youtube. The website recorded 1229 new users in January 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.hull.ac.uk/editor-assets/docs/211222-research-festival-programme-a5-landscape-web.pdf |
| Description | University of Hull screening of Haohyoh (Ken Maracle) making a replica Haudenosaunee Friendship wampum belt for the AHRC project Brightening the Covenant Chain, Research Fest 16th September 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This festival will comprise a variety of events that celebrate The University of Hull's research and researchers. To celebrate the research, and to acknowledge the great work our researchers do, The University Research Fest took place on 16th September 2022 in Middleton Hall and other venues across campus and hosted a range of activities. The festival included screening of a 60 minute educational documentary made by the BTCC AHRC project in collaboration with Haohyoh, Ken Maracle, a faith keeper of the Lower Cayuga Longhouse and a member of the Cayuga Nation, Iroquois Confederacy, Deer Clan. Ken has been making reproduction Wampum Belts for more than 30 years and because of his strong collaborative relationship with the BTCC team, agreed to make a bespoke wampum friendship belt onscreen for the BTCC extended project team as an instructional tool. The film shows Ken making the special 'Brightening the Covenant Chain' belt on location at Chiefswood Park, New York a 20 acre site along the Grand River close to Chiefswood National Historic Site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |