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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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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Many thanks to @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social and @saraspike.bsky.social for all the support and dialogue around this!

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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 · 25/07/2025

And bring a thermos of hot tea!

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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I imagine those switchbacks through the mountains are especially thrilling when winter driving. Like slalom skiing without knees

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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

What had you here for a year? I was trying to imagine living here but expect the summer experience is not representative. We've had a lovely visit though and I wish we had another few days. We spent most of this trip on the other side of the island

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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

We also popped by Wildfire Pottery in North Shore and she had a wonderful and carefully curated selection of used books

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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Ed's looked great too! I had all the kids with me so couldn't look as closely there as I'd have liked. With those two shops and the comics shop in between it seemed like a great area for books.

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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It didn't work out for me today, so still need to track this title down, but there are some lovely shops here, and I bought a few others 🫠 A great Charlotte St shop called On the Same Page had Oil People in the centre of their window display!

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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It better be! 😎 To honor your journey with Oil People, I'm going to try and find a copy of Perfection in Sydney NS today

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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

That's exactly what it is-- enjoyable as something that can be read in an evening but didn't make me want to go read something else by him

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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This looks great. I'll pick up a copy. I'm just starting David Huebert's Oil People today so no thoughts on it yet. I finished Matt Haig's The Humans last night which was short&sad

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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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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 · 08/06/2025

Who were those authors? I find that I have favourite books moreso than favourite authors

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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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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This is finally the next book in my TBR stack and it's making me rush my current read

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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 · 17/05/2025

Fredericton always pushing its peanut agenda

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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 · 07/05/2025

It had been sitting in mine for a little while, too.

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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

It's 2025 we can figure out how to make these/anything

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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I feel like the exact same people who would buy fiddleheads for 29 a pound would buy these chips if the bag was nicer.

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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

That gave me a million dollar idea

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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

USD so like 40 bucks 💰💰💰

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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 · 29/04/2025

His distillery hoodie and seadogs ball cap tho.

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rachel bryant @rmbryant.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I love her work. Didn't you guys find birch bark biting on Grand Manan a few years ago? I remember Elizabeth asking me about it and maybe sending me a pic

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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 · 31/03/2025

I needed a craft to be working on while it was on

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