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rachel bryant

@rmbryant.bsky.social
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English professor studying settler treaty responsibilities, colonial American literatures, and paper at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John // supporting land-based Wolastoqewi education @ www.caribouclub.ca

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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...
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Gina Brooks on Reconnecting with Land and Kin
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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The Oar @theoarnb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
📣 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
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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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.
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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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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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
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NiCHE Conversations 6.1: A 19th Century Waponahki Basket & Env. Memory w/ G. Brooks & R. Bryant
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Student made soaps from the Caribou Club course last week 🧼🫧
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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
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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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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Beautiful days on the land at the Caribou Club this week for Kikkuwosson/Wksitqamu, 3 days of land based art and teachings
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The Oar @theoarnb.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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:
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
my first flax flower 💠
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Teaching the Codex @teachingcodex.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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
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Teaching the Codex
Pedagogical Approaches to Palaeography and Codicology
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Sara Spike @saraspike.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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
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“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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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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
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“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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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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
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Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
!!!! "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..."
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Talking treaty in the old growth forest in Lorneville tomorrow as NB continues to mull over the EIA for this industrial park expansion
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
At Point Pleasant Park this summer 🌞
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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 💙📚
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
When other cities have a charter and you want one too
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Stephanie Pettigrew @stephpettigrew.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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...
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Elizabeth Mancke fonds
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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 ✨
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A book that lives up to the hype -- wow. 💙📚
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Fiddleheads price per pound in Texas this week and "Trade in the 21st Century" by Mihku Paul
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Bought this little stack of books to look at how they are bound -- they are someone's dance cards from the 1930s
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Permission to treat April 1 deadlines as pranks?
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
corn husks, a little leftover rag, and some old wet leaves my kids gathered from under the snow
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
cleaning up after our annual tamale party by making corn husk paper 🌽
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Book made by Wolastoqewi artist Destiny Dunphy for Mihqitahamin (Remember Me), an exhibit on now at the George Fry Gallery in Fredericton
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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
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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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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
typical book project timeline
Detail from a map of the A23a iceberg's progress since being calved in 1986; after 30 years stuck on the seafloor it made rapid progress in 2022-2023 but rotated on a water column for 8 months and has now run aground off South Georgia. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20d1xp6046o
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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_...
Frontispiece and title page of Vox Piscis, or The Book-Fish, contayning three treatises which were found in the belly of a cod-fish in Cambridge market, on Midsummer Eve last
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A 1930 ad for the Admiral Beatty in Saint John. Absolutely fireproof 🤔
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Admiring the work of local papermakers
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Year of the penpal -- sending Passamaquoddy papers found in a New Brunswick shop off to Donald Soctomah
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Watched the first episode of Dickinson with my students last week and everyone's fav part was when Emily Dickinson's dad accuses her of not helping out enough around the house, and she goes, "I'm the one who found all these birds nests."
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Ok--reading this in your early 20s is a totally different experience from reading it in your 40s. I am destroyed ⏳📚
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Making newsprint yarn from the latest Bargain Hunter thrown into our driveway
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
#IndigenousStorytellingMonth "What does it mean to be hungry? Is it only a physical condition? I have long hungered for what has been lost to my family because of colonialism. I have hungered to make sense of the past, to be well & strong." - Tabitha Robin niche-canada.org/2021/08/31/h...
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Hunger, Healing, and Indigenous Food Sovereignty
What does it mean to be hungry? Is it only a physical condition? I have long hungered for what has been lost to my family because of colonialism.
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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“Quicker than rain…” —Hone Tuwhare (Ngāpuhi) #MāoriPoetry #PoetryAotearoa
Reign Again

Neither juggernaut
man
not crawling thing

can bring
a mountain weeping
to its knees
quicker than rain

that demure leveller
ocean-blessed
cloud-sent
maker of plains.
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
2025 is the year of the penpal
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“'The Land is No Longer as it Was': Land Use, Resource Extraction, and Land Claims in the Yukon Territory" by @glenniceton.bsky.social is our latest Paper in Canadian History and Environment. niche-canada.org/2025/01/29/t... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenous #yukon
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“The Land is No Longer as it Was”: Land Use, Resource Extraction, and Land Claims in the Yukon Territory.
In 1973, Yukon settlers opposed Indigenous land claims, fearing economic impacts, while Indigenous groups fought for recognition and justice.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
This poem by Mary Robinson, published in The Morning Post in 1800, addressed to that newspaper's "Type," really must be the only poem about a typeface (as well as in a typeface) written in the #19thc. (But, gosh, I would be happy to hear of others.) Here are the first 2 stanzas. #BookHistory
To the New Type of the Morning Post (27 January 1800)
Ye Sable Legions, here you stand/ A thousand Subjects to command!/ All dimly clad in leaden mail,/ To triumph o'er your Victim pale!/To blur the white and spotless scene,/ And sport your Columns dark between! Ye Sable Legions! Fate decrees// That, 'midst your triumphs, you should please;/ That Mirth and Wisdom should combine/ To regulate each blacking line;/That Wit should in your Ranks appear, And Beauty drop the frequent tear,/When tales of tnender sorrow prove/ That Souls of Lead can yield to Love."
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
supposed to be re-writing a grant but instead find myself typing ee cummings poems onto rag paper made from my kids' baby clothes
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
spent my start up research funding on a hollander beater for papermaking adventures 📜
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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Some 18th-century handwriting in Mohawk, pretty cool.
Old handwriting in the Mohawk language, in an old book in an archive
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Rachel Anderson @rach-anderson.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My very first article has been published in the American Historical Review! ✨ In it I've transcribed a handful of petitions that help us to understand how people began to piece their lives back together following an outbreak of plague 👇 academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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The Lancashire Plague Petitions: Life after the Plague in Early Modern England
Abstract. Historians typically explore the resilience of past societies in terms of large-scale outcomes like population levels. In contrast, this paper ex
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Saint John used bookstore question. How do I cite this blue duotang of unsupported claims?
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
"When these colonies challenged Americans who fished illegally in their waters, often by impounding vessels, Americans, in turn, challenged the jurisdictional authority of the colonies to police their own inshore waters." - @richrray.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2020/09/24/f... #envhist #cdnhist
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From Olive Branch to Policing Stick: The Fishery and the Constitutional Transformation of the 1778 Taxation of the Colonies Act
The regulation of British North America's pre-Confederation fishery showcased the Maritime colonies' use of polycentric governance to address overfishing, assert jurisdiction over inshore waters, and ...
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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I love finding whatever people used as bookmarks in old local books, a thread. First up -- a poem clipped from newsprint titled "Fort Howe Hill" by Helen Middleton. Photo of a girl from the same book
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