“Our Guides Were Really Going Places/Nishnaabeg e-paamwingewaad waasa zhaawag”

 

TravElling Exhibit Dates and Locations

The projected opening for the “Our Guides Were Really Going Places” exhibition is late July, 2022 at the North Bay Museum. The Lake Nipissing Beading Project is expected to open at Nipissing University in September 2022. Both exhibitions will travel together beginning in November 2022.

 

Below is the tentative schedule for the travelling exhibit across northern Ontario:

  • June - July 2022
    Nbisiing
    Nbisiing Nishinaabeg traditional territory
    Lands protected by the Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850

  • November-December 2022
    Bawating
    Anishinaabeg traditional territory
    Lands protected by the Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850

  • January-April 2023
    Anemkii Wiikwedong
    Anishinaabeg traditional territory
    Lands protected by the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850

  • May-August 2023
    Okikendawt
    Dokis First Nation Reserve
    Anishinaabeg traditional territory
    Lands protected by the Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850

  • September-November 2023
    Anishinaabeg, Mushkegowuk, and Algonquin traditional territory
    Lands protected by Treaty 9 of 1905-1906

 
 

Jako Couchi, Olaus J. Murie, W.E. Clyde Todd, and Paul Commanda (left to right) in a Peterborough freight canoe, May 28, 1914.

This photo was taken at the Bell River Crossing (now Senneterre) in Western Quebec. 

EXHIBITION CONTENTS

Developed in relationship with Nipissing First Nation and Dokis First Nation, the “Our Guides Were Really Going Places/Nishnaabeg e-paamwingewaad waasa zhaawag” exhibit will include:

  • Exhibit panels featuring Nbisiing and Omuskego guide biographies integrated with Carnegie Museum expedition summaries and photographs

  • A birch bark canoe model displayed with a video about the significance of canoe building in Nbisiing culture

  • An interactive online HGIS prototype that will allow visitors to interact with a story map while also extending the reach of the exhibit to northern and international public and academic audiences

  • Carnegie Museum specimens displayed alongside a panel about Nbisiing taxidermists

  • An oversized panel recreating the Carnegie Museum’s “Blue Goose” diorama