Moccasin Identifier Project
A collaboration with The Moccasin Identifier Project, founded by historian Carolyn King, the former Chief of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
This partnered project will integrate AR and Moccasin stencilling on York University’s Markham campus and trails as part of new land-based Experiential Education programming in the Creative Technologies Program at Markham.
Carolyn King is the former elected Chief of the Mississaugas of Credit First Nation. She completed one two-year term in political office. Carolyn was the first woman ever elected as Chief in her First Nation and served from December 1997 to December 1999.
The Biskaabiiyaang Metaverse
A partnership with Biskaabiiyaang: the Indigenous Metaverse, working with Indigenous
youth in transition (2023-2027) on characters, story, and soundscapes on delivering Anishinaabe language and First Nation cultural competency programs.
Biskaabiiyaang is led by Professor Maya Chacaby. Maya is Anishinaabe, Beaver Clan from Kaministiquia (Thunder Bay). As part of her Linguistics curriculum at York University, she developed a story to help her students learn Anishinaabemowin (the Ojibwe language).
We acknowledge out funding partners supporting these ongoing projects, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Connected Minds initiative (York University and Queen’s University).
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land that the York University campuses are on, the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Wendat. It is now home to many First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities. This territory is subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region. The territories in the Markham area are covered by the Upper Canada Treaties. We also acknowledge the current land claims for the Rouge Tract by the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This land acknowledgement is in process as together, we continue to learn more about the land of the Markham campus and its history.