rachel bryant
@rmbryant.bsky.social
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 @ https://www.caribouclub.ca/
Pinned
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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.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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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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
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
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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
The conversation is now available on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ake4...
#envhist #envhum #indigenous #treaty
Student made soaps from the Caribou Club course last week 🧼🫧
September 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Student made soaps from the Caribou Club course last week 🧼🫧
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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
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.
niche-canada.org
August 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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
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
Beautiful days on the land at the Caribou Club this week for Kikkuwosson/Wksitqamu, 3 days of land based art and teachings
August 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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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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:
August 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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 💠
July 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
my first flax flower 💠
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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
teachingthecodex.com
July 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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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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
"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...
niche-canada.org
July 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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
"although Wolastokuk no longer holds caribou, it continues to hold caribou food" #envhist #envhum #cdnhist
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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
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...
niche-canada.org
June 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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
niche-canada.org/2025/06/30/t...
#envhum #indigenous #art
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
June 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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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!!!! "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..."
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/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Between Editions: Collaboration, Indigenous Book History, and the Paratextual Legacy of Zitkála-Šá’s American Indian Stories | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 119, No 2
Abstract The relationship between Indigenous books across time, from first editions to contemporary reprints, remains a story infrequently told in Indigenous literary criticism. While scholars often s...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
June 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
!!!! "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..."
Talking treaty in the old growth forest in Lorneville tomorrow as NB continues to mull over the EIA for this industrial park expansion
June 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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 🌞
June 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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 💙📚
June 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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
June 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
When other cities have a charter and you want one too
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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...
7067.sydneyplus.com/archive/fina...
Elizabeth Mancke fonds
7067.sydneyplus.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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...
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 ✨
May 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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. 💙📚
May 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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
May 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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
April 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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?
March 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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
March 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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 🌽
March 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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
March 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Book made by Wolastoqewi artist Destiny Dunphy for Mihqitahamin (Remember Me), an exhibit on now at the George Fry Gallery in Fredericton