Sarah Aquash Shogonosh shows how to make a bull rush mat. Volney Jones. 1933. U-M Bentley Historical Library.

The path toward our collaboration began more than a decade ago as we engaged in the work of building new, productive, and respectful paths forward to carry out the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Together, our efforts returned hundreds of Anishinaabek ancestors and their burial belongings to the Saginaw Chipewa Indian Tribe of Michigan and man other Great Lakes Tribes. As our relations have been repaired and strengthened, exciting new partnerships - for knowledge sharing, research, and teaching - have been interwoven.