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Laura Peers

Laura Peers is interested in the meanings that heritage objects hold for Indigenous peoples today and in relationships between museums and Indigenous peoples. Her publications include Museums and Source Communities (with Alison K. Brown), “Ceremonies of Renewal: Visits, Relationships and Healing in the Museum Space,” and This Is Our Life: Haida Material Heritage and Changing Museum Practice (with Cara Krmpotich).

Books by Laura Peers

Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America

Material Culture in Motion, c.1780 - 1980

edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers & Anne Whitelaw

Visiting With the Ancestors

Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces

by (author) Laura Peers & Alison K. Brown

This Is Our Life

Haida Material Heritage and Changing Museum Practice

by (author) Cara Krmpotich, Laura Peers & the Haida Repatriation Committee and staff of the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum

Gathering Places

Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories

edited by Carolyn Podruchny & Laura Peers

Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa

Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation

by (author) Alison Brown & Laura Peers

Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa

Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation

by (author) Alison Brown & Laura Peers

The Ojibwa of Western Canada 1780-1870

by (author) Laura Peers