Gina Brooks on Reconnecting w/ Land & Kin As we wait for Season 6 of NiCHE Conversations w/ @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to wrap up, let's look back at the season In 6.1, @rmbryant.bsky.social & Brooks talked about the restoration of a 19th century Waponahki basket www.youtube.com/shorts/D6eKo...

Gina Brooks on Reconnecting with Land and Kin

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📣 The Oar is now accepting abstracts for Volume 2 (Summer 2027). We welcome proposals on all aspects of New Brunswick and Atlantic regional history. Abstracts (max. 300 words) are due by September 30, 2026. 📧 Submit to TheOarNB@gmail.com #NewBrunswick #History #AtlanticCanada #PublicHistory #CfP

A family has handed over a 13th century book to the National Library of Norway. Conservator Chiara Palandri says its pages were made of calfskin parchment and that the cover appears to be hairy sealskin. The strap to hold the book together is thought to have been made from reindeer hide.

Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book

The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.

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Season Six of NiCHE Conversations with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social kicked off with a conversation with @rmbryant.bsky.social and Gina Brooks! The conversation is now available on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ake4... #envhist #envhum #indigenous #treaty

NiCHE Conversations 6.1: A 19th Century Waponahki Basket & Env. Memory w/ G. Brooks & R. Bryant

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Student made soaps from the Caribou Club course last week 🧼🫧

Call for Contributions – The Oar: New Brunswick’s Popular History Magazine - @theoarnb.bsky.social The Editorial Committee invites proposals for contributions that document aspects of New Brunswick’s past, broadly defined. niche-canada.org/2025/08/28/c... #cdnhist #newbrunswick

Call for Contributions - The Oar: New Brunswick's Popular History Magazine

The Oar, New Brunswick’s popular history magazine, will launch in Summer 2026 as the new official annual periodical of the York-Sunbury Historical Society and Fredericton Region Museum.

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Beautiful days on the land at the Caribou Club this week for Kikkuwosson/Wksitqamu, 3 days of land based art and teachings

Our first Call for Papers is live! If you are interested in writing the history of New Brunswick, engaging with popular audiences, and supporting small museums, then we would love to hear from you! Proposals for submissions are due 30 September 2025. See below for details:

my first flax flower 💠

Hello Bluesky! We're an interdisciplinary project on the teaching of palaeography and codicology, and we're now branching out to include early printed books. Check out our website for lots of learning resources: teachingthecodex.com

Teaching the Codex

Pedagogical Approaches to Palaeography and Codicology

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I love this essay about the historical ecology of a land haunted by caribou, and the restoration of a Wolastoqey birch bark basket by Elder Gina Brooks and @rmbryant.bsky.social "although Wolastokuk no longer holds caribou, it continues to hold caribou food" #envhist #envhum #cdnhist

“the stories come alive in it”: Renewing lakotowakən in the Waponahki homelands

The Wolastoqewi Elder and traditional artist Gina Brooks invited the literary scholar Rachel Bryant to make paper from a lichen commonly known as old man’s beard. Gina wanted the paper to line the lid...

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Today Gina Brooks and @rmbryant.bsky.social share "'the stories come alive in it': Renewing lakotowakən in the Waponahki homelands" niche-canada.org/2025/06/30/t... #envhum #indigenous #art

“the stories come alive in it”: Renewing lakotowakən in the Waponahki homelands

The Wolastoqewi Elder and traditional artist Gina Brooks invited the literary scholar Rachel Bryant to make paper from a lichen commonly known as old man’s beard. Gina wanted the paper to line the lid...

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Full story on the CBC NB website this morning. "We want to make sure that the people are aware that we're collaborating together to make sure that this land is truly assessed for its value to the people, not value to industry." -Gina Brooks

!!!! "The advancing scholarship of Indigenous book history, then, might reposition the paratext as a dynamic literary space that extends well beyond the life and agency of the author..."

Jonathan@jsench.bsky.social · last yr.

Amy Gore: "Between Editions: Collaboration, Indigenous Book History, and the Paratextual Legacy of Zitkála-Šá’s American Indian Stories" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Talking treaty in the old growth forest in Lorneville tomorrow as NB continues to mull over the EIA for this industrial park expansion

At Point Pleasant Park this summer 🌞

Spring reading about what trees are doing even while we don't know how to see them--and the things that are happening to trees (in our name) while we aren't seeing 💙📚

When other cities have a charter and you want one too

I am so pleased to announce that the Elizabeth Mancke Fond is now available at the UNB archive. This collection does not yet contain her digital files, as we are still waiting for UNB School of Arts to provide those records, but all textual records are here: 7067.sydneyplus.com/archive/fina...

Brilliant new work on basswood by Elder Gina Brooks at the UNB Art Centre until late July -- part of a wonderful exhibition curated by Amy Ash ✨

A book that lives up to the hype -- wow. 💙📚

Fiddleheads price per pound in Texas this week and "Trade in the 21st Century" by Mihku Paul

Bought this little stack of books to look at how they are bound -- they are someone's dance cards from the 1930s

Permission to treat April 1 deadlines as pranks?

corn husks, a little leftover rag, and some old wet leaves my kids gathered from under the snow

cleaning up after our annual tamale party by making corn husk paper 🌽

Book made by Wolastoqewi artist Destiny Dunphy for Mihqitahamin (Remember Me), an exhibit on now at the George Fry Gallery in Fredericton

I'm stoked out this year's Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography @ Penn: Kelly Wisecup presents a series of three lectures, "Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation," March 24-7, 2025, on campus and via Zoom

Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation

In this series of three lectures, Kelly Wisecup examines how Indigenous peoples made and used the page to address structures of dispossession.

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typical book project timeline

In 1626, a Cambridge fishwife sliced open a cod, only to find a gelatinous, half-dissolved manuscript inside. It was published the next year under the name "Vox Piscis or, the Bookfish." At this point, why not get your news from inside a dead fish? #earlymodern #bookfish archive.org/details/bim_...