Laura Peers
Biographic Data
| ID | 133566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Peers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Peers |
| SIGNATURE | PEERS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0332-8306 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Expanded Loans as Forms of Indigenous Access, Reconnection, and Sovereignty: Mnaajtood ge Mnaadendaan—Miigwewinan Michi Saagiig Kwewag Miinegoowin Gimaans Zhaganaash Aki 1860 / To Honour and Respect—G…
Addressing the legacies of colonial collections and enabling Indigenous Peoples to reconnect with or extend sovereignty over ancestral items in museums requires tools in addition to repatriation. This article explores the concept of an expanded loan, which adds to the activities normally connected to a loan to include meaningful forms of Indigenous community engagement with loaned items, including ceremony and out-of-case visits/research sessions…
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America: Material Culture in Motion, c.1780 - 1980
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places and peoples, Indigenous-made dolls, and an Englishwoman's collection provide case studies of art and material culture that correct and give nuance to global a…
On the Treatment of Dead Enemies: Indigenous Human Remains in Britain in the Early Twenty-first Century
This book chapter is not available in ORA. Citation: Peers, L. (2009) On the treatment of dead enemies: indigenous human remains in Britain in the early twenty-first century. In: Lambert, H. & McDonald, M. (eds.) Social Bodies. New York: Berghahn, pp. 77-99
Teaching Anthropology With Museum Collections
Material culture provides powerful teaching opportunities for core anthropological themes and issues. Based on experience in teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students, teh authors provide examples and a framework for a class exercise which supports students to learn from objects and to think anthropologically about them
Indigenous Artists in the European Art World
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object ? a box, pen, effigy and cloak ? this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography…
Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi Aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
The Magic of Bureaucracy
As a curator who has been responsible for the return of Indigenous human remains from a UK museum, I take as a starting point for this article the dossier of paperwork and the administrative acts required to negotiate the decision about a claim and de-accession; to meet requirements for export, customs, and airline transport; and effect the return of human remains. The administrative actions involved in repatriation are forms of ritual, performan…
Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces
FIgUre 1 Shirt with painted war honours, 1893.67.1 2 Shirt with layers of paint, 1893.67.2 3 Shirt for formal occasions, 1893.67.3 4 Shirt with replaced quillwork, 1893.67.4 5 Shirt for working, 1893.67.5 6 Map of Blackfoot territory 7 Writing-on-Stone area, with Sweetpine Hills (also known as Sweetgrass Hills) in background 8 Napi's playground 9 Encampment of the Peikann Indians, by Karl Bodmer, 1832-34 Petroglyph showing shirt, Writing-on-Stone…
Ceremonies of Renewal
Access to heritage objects in museum collections can play an important role in healing from colonial trauma for indigenous groups by facilitating strengthened connections to heritage, to ancestors, to kin and community members in the present, and to identity. This article analyzes how touch and other forms of sensory engagement with five historic Blackfoot shirts enabled Blackfoot people to address historical traumas and to engage in ‘ceremonies …
The scholar-practitioner expanded: An Indigenous and Museum Research Network
2011). The scholar–practitioner expanded: an indigenous and museum research network. Museum Management and Curatorship: Vol. 26, Taking stock: museum studies and museum practices in Canada, pp. 421-440
Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories
Social Bodies
The Ojibwa of Western Canada 1780-1870
As a people who emerged, adapted, and survived in a climate of change, the western Ojibwa demonstrate both the effects of historic forces that acted upon Native peoples, and the spirit, determination, and adaptive strategies that the Native people have used to cope with those forces
Almost True’: Peter Rindisbacher's Early Images of Rupert's Land, 1821–26
This article examines early watercolours and sketches by Peter Rindisbacher, who in 1821, emigrated with his family from Switzerland to the Red River Settlement in Winnipeg, Canada. Rindisbacher's work has been praised, and made use of, for its detailed renderings of clothing and objects typical of the Northwestern fur trade. The article examines both the materiality of the images and the materiality within them, in order to understand his Europe…
Museums And Source Communities
Repatriation - a gain for science
Strands Which Refuse to be Braided: Hair Samples from Beatrice Blackwood’s Ojibwe Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum
This article concerns hair samples collected in 1925 in the Ojibwe community of Red Lake, Minnesota, USA, now in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. It outlines the process of consultation with community members and of the discovery of the historical context and meanings surrounding the hair. These meanings are emotive because of the conjuncture of Ojibwe beliefs about hair with the history of the cutting and analysis of hair by Wh…
Native Americans in museums: A review of the Chase Manhattan Gallery of North America
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page
There is no end to relationship among the indians”: Ojibwa Families and Kinship in Historical Perspective
This article presents an overview of the Ojibwa family over the past three centuries, from early European contacts to the present. It emphasizes the extent to which Ojibwa familial relations have long been embedded in extensive networks of kin that played major roles in the family lives of individuals of all ages. The article traces the effects of historical change on the Ojibwa family and examines continuity within Ojibwa kinship relations. The …
Playing Ourselves: First Nations and Native American Interpreters at Living History Sites
Research Article| October 01 1999 "Playing Ourselves": First Nations and Native American Interpreters at Living History Sites Laura Peers Laura Peers Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1999) 21 (4): 39–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/3379472 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Pe…
Many tender ties: The shifting contexts and meanings of the S BLACK bag
An embroidered and beaded bag collected in a fur‐trade social context in western North America in the early 1840s has shifted drastically in meaning over the course of its existence. Initially expressing affectionate ties between its maker and its recipient, the bag later came to represent outsiders' denigration of Native women and those who married them, and became an exotic souvenir in an English Victorian household. Still later, the bag became…
Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600-1960: A Study of Tradition and Change
Journal Article Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600–1960: A Study of Tradition and Change and The Ojibwa of Western Canada, 1780 to 1870 Get access Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600–1960: A Study of Tradition and Change. By Bieder Robert E.. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xiv + 288 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $37.50, cloth; $17.95, papers.)The Ojibwa of Western Canada, 1780 to 1870.…
The Ojibwa of Western Canada, 1780 to 1870
The Ojibwa of Western Canada, 1780-1870
Journal Article The Ojibwa of Western Canada, 1780–1870. By Laura Peers. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1994. xx, 288pp. Cloth, $32.95, ISBN 0-87351-310-X. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-87351311-8.) Get access Ken Coates Ken Coates University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Page 1192, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Many tender ties: The shifting contexts and meanings of the S BLACK bag
An embroidered and beaded bag collected in a fur‐trade social context in western North America in the early 1840s has shifted drastically in meaning over the course of its existence. Initially expressing affectionate ties between its maker and its recipient, the bag later came to represent outsiders' denigration of Native women and those who married them, and became an exotic souvenir in an English Victorian household. Still later, the bag became…
Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces
FIgUre 1 Shirt with painted war honours, 1893.67.1 2 Shirt with layers of paint, 1893.67.2 3 Shirt for formal occasions, 1893.67.3 4 Shirt with replaced quillwork, 1893.67.4 5 Shirt for working, 1893.67.5 6 Map of Blackfoot territory 7 Writing-on-Stone area, with Sweetpine Hills (also known as Sweetgrass Hills) in background 8 Napi's playground 9 Encampment of the Peikann Indians, by Karl Bodmer, 1832-34 Petroglyph showing shirt, Writing-on-Stone…
There is no end to relationship among the indians”: Ojibwa Families and Kinship in Historical Perspective
This article presents an overview of the Ojibwa family over the past three centuries, from early European contacts to the present. It emphasizes the extent to which Ojibwa familial relations have long been embedded in extensive networks of kin that played major roles in the family lives of individuals of all ages. The article traces the effects of historical change on the Ojibwa family and examines continuity within Ojibwa kinship relations. The …
Strands Which Refuse to be Braided: Hair Samples from Beatrice Blackwood’s Ojibwe Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum
This article concerns hair samples collected in 1925 in the Ojibwe community of Red Lake, Minnesota, USA, now in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. It outlines the process of consultation with community members and of the discovery of the historical context and meanings surrounding the hair. These meanings are emotive because of the conjuncture of Ojibwe beliefs about hair with the history of the cutting and analysis of hair by Wh…
The scholar-practitioner expanded: An Indigenous and Museum Research Network
2011). The scholar–practitioner expanded: an indigenous and museum research network. Museum Management and Curatorship: Vol. 26, Taking stock: museum studies and museum practices in Canada, pp. 421-440
Playing Ourselves: First Nations and Native American Interpreters at Living History Sites
Research Article| October 01 1999 "Playing Ourselves": First Nations and Native American Interpreters at Living History Sites Laura Peers Laura Peers Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1999) 21 (4): 39–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/3379472 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Pe…
The Magic of Bureaucracy
As a curator who has been responsible for the return of Indigenous human remains from a UK museum, I take as a starting point for this article the dossier of paperwork and the administrative acts required to negotiate the decision about a claim and de-accession; to meet requirements for export, customs, and airline transport; and effect the return of human remains. The administrative actions involved in repatriation are forms of ritual, performan…
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object ? a box, pen, effigy and cloak ? this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography…
Repatriation - a gain for science
To Please the Caribou: Painted Caribou-Skin Coats Worn by the Naskapi, Montagnais, and Cree Hunters of the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula
The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario
To Please the Caribou: Painted Caribou-Skin Coats Worn by the Naskapi, Montagnais, and Cree Hunters of the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula
Come, Blackrobe: De Smet and the Indian Tragedy
Journal Article “Come, Blackrobe”: De Smet and the Indian Tragedy and Sacred Encounters: Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West Get access “Come, Blackrobe”: De Smet and the Indian Tragedy. By Killoren John J., S.J. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. xv + 448 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)Sacred Encounters: Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West. By Peterson Jacqueline…
The Ojibwa of Western Canada, 1780-1870
Journal Article The Ojibwa of Western Canada, 1780–1870. By Laura Peers. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1994. xx, 288pp. Cloth, $32.95, ISBN 0-87351-310-X. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-87351311-8.) Get access Ken Coates Ken Coates University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Page 1192, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Sacred Encounters: Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West
For nearly 350 years after Columbus's landing, the remote Northern Rocky mountain homeland of the Flathead and Coeur d'Alene tribes remained a safe haven, virtually unmapped and unexplored by whites. But heralded by Indian prophecies and a request for missionaries, in 1841, the Belgian-born Jesuit Pierre-Jean De Smet arrived among the Flathead, or Salish, in western Montana. His dream of founding an empire of Christian Indians sparked instead a c…
Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600-1960: A Study of Tradition and Change
Journal Article Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600–1960: A Study of Tradition and Change and The Ojibwa of Western Canada, 1780 to 1870 Get access Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600–1960: A Study of Tradition and Change. By Bieder Robert E.. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xiv + 288 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $37.50, cloth; $17.95, papers.)The Ojibwa of Western Canada, 1780 to 1870.…
The Ojibwa of Western Canada, 1780 to 1870
There is no end to relationship among the indians”: Ojibwa Families and Kinship in Historical Perspective
This article presents an overview of the Ojibwa family over the past three centuries, from early European contacts to the present. It emphasizes the extent to which Ojibwa familial relations have long been embedded in extensive networks of kin that played major roles in the family lives of individuals of all ages. The article traces the effects of historical change on the Ojibwa family and examines continuity within Ojibwa kinship relations. The …
Playing Ourselves: First Nations and Native American Interpreters at Living History Sites
Research Article| October 01 1999 "Playing Ourselves": First Nations and Native American Interpreters at Living History Sites Laura Peers Laura Peers Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1999) 21 (4): 39–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/3379472 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Pe…
Many tender ties: The shifting contexts and meanings of the S BLACK bag
An embroidered and beaded bag collected in a fur‐trade social context in western North America in the early 1840s has shifted drastically in meaning over the course of its existence. Initially expressing affectionate ties between its maker and its recipient, the bag later came to represent outsiders' denigration of Native women and those who married them, and became an exotic souvenir in an English Victorian household. Still later, the bag became…
Native Americans in museums: A review of the Chase Manhattan Gallery of North America
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page
Strands Which Refuse to be Braided: Hair Samples from Beatrice Blackwood’s Ojibwe Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum
This article concerns hair samples collected in 1925 in the Ojibwe community of Red Lake, Minnesota, USA, now in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. It outlines the process of consultation with community members and of the discovery of the historical context and meanings surrounding the hair. These meanings are emotive because of the conjuncture of Ojibwe beliefs about hair with the history of the cutting and analysis of hair by Wh…
Repatriation - a gain for science
Museums And Source Communities
Social Bodies
The Ojibwa of Western Canada 1780-1870
As a people who emerged, adapted, and survived in a climate of change, the western Ojibwa demonstrate both the effects of historic forces that acted upon Native peoples, and the spirit, determination, and adaptive strategies that the Native people have used to cope with those forces
Almost True’: Peter Rindisbacher's Early Images of Rupert's Land, 1821–26
This article examines early watercolours and sketches by Peter Rindisbacher, who in 1821, emigrated with his family from Switzerland to the Red River Settlement in Winnipeg, Canada. Rindisbacher's work has been praised, and made use of, for its detailed renderings of clothing and objects typical of the Northwestern fur trade. The article examines both the materiality of the images and the materiality within them, in order to understand his Europe…
Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories
The scholar-practitioner expanded: An Indigenous and Museum Research Network
2011). The scholar–practitioner expanded: an indigenous and museum research network. Museum Management and Curatorship: Vol. 26, Taking stock: museum studies and museum practices in Canada, pp. 421-440
Ceremonies of Renewal
Access to heritage objects in museum collections can play an important role in healing from colonial trauma for indigenous groups by facilitating strengthened connections to heritage, to ancestors, to kin and community members in the present, and to identity. This article analyzes how touch and other forms of sensory engagement with five historic Blackfoot shirts enabled Blackfoot people to address historical traumas and to engage in ‘ceremonies …
Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces
FIgUre 1 Shirt with painted war honours, 1893.67.1 2 Shirt with layers of paint, 1893.67.2 3 Shirt for formal occasions, 1893.67.3 4 Shirt with replaced quillwork, 1893.67.4 5 Shirt for working, 1893.67.5 6 Map of Blackfoot territory 7 Writing-on-Stone area, with Sweetpine Hills (also known as Sweetgrass Hills) in background 8 Napi's playground 9 Encampment of the Peikann Indians, by Karl Bodmer, 1832-34 Petroglyph showing shirt, Writing-on-Stone…
Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi Aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
The Magic of Bureaucracy
As a curator who has been responsible for the return of Indigenous human remains from a UK museum, I take as a starting point for this article the dossier of paperwork and the administrative acts required to negotiate the decision about a claim and de-accession; to meet requirements for export, customs, and airline transport; and effect the return of human remains. The administrative actions involved in repatriation are forms of ritual, performan…
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object ? a box, pen, effigy and cloak ? this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography…
Indigenous Artists in the European Art World
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