Heather George - History

What happens to your sense of identity when you don't see your heritage reflected in textbooks, museums or history courses? It's an injustice that Arts PhD student Heather George has experienced and that her work aims to address. The public historian, who is of Euro-Canadian and Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) descent, studies the history of Haudenosonee museum practice and how Indigenous ways of cultural preservation can inform contemporary museum practice. Heather says museums can and should be self-determining spaces — "spaces of healing and reconnection to community and building of pride in identity.”

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