The
University
of
Michigan’s
Institute
for
Social Research hosted Eric
Hemenway, an Anishinaabe/
Odawa from Cross Village,
Mich., on Thursday morning
to speak about the history,
culture and repatriation of
the
Anishinaabek
Odawa
tribe.
About
35
students,
faculty and staff attended the
event.
Hemenway is the director
of
Repatriation,
Archives
and Records for the Little
Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa
Indian, a federally recognized
tribe in northern Michigan.
He has done extensive work
with the repatriation of Native
American
remains
under
the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation
Act by working with museums
and
universities,
and
has
brought roughly 300 people
back
to
their
homelands,
according to his website.
Hemenway
began
by
acknowledging the Odawa,
Ojibwe,
and
Bodewadmi
tribes who are indigenous to
the land that the University
currently
resides
on.
He
explained how his stories
about culture and heritage
may not apply to his entire
tribe, but rather his own
experiences and traditions
growing
up
in
northern
Michigan as an Anishinaabe/
Odawa.
“I always say you could
have 10 Natives up here, and
they can give you 10 different
perspectives
and
answers,
and
they’re
all
correct,”
Hemenway
said.
“So,
I’m
not speaking on behalf of all
Odawa, I’m not speaking on
behalf of all Anishinaabek,
I’m speaking on behalf of
myself and everything I’ve
learned on my time here.”
Hemenway
spoke
about
repatriation,
the
idea
of
returning
someone
or
something back to their home
land, and how it connects with
the land where Natives buried
their ancestors. As a historian,
Hemenway
explained
how
hundreds of thousands of
Native
Americans
were
forcibly removed from their
native lands.
“When things were very
tumultuous, and we were
forced with removal, that
connection
with
their
heritage, their history and
their culture is severed,”
Hemenway said. “One of
the main things that kept
us in our homelands was
our ancestors.”
The idea of home is
deeply rooted in Native
culture,
Hemenway
explained.
Hemenway
shared
his
experience
of reading letters Native
leaders
wrote
to
the
federal government 200
years ago explaining the
necessity of staying on the
land of their ancestors.
“Reading these letters
from
200
years
ago
has
been
rewarding,
impactful and very deep,”
Hemenway said. “When
you’re being forced with
this choice of ‘Do I leave
my land? What do I do to
stay home?’ I’m thinking
of my grandfather, my
grandmother, my dad, my
mother, and you have to
be there with them. So
that idea and feeling of
home goes beyond a house. It
goes beyond this area I visit
occasionally. It’s literally my
DNA, my roots. My ancestors
are in this land, and that’s why
I consider this my anchor.”
Hemenway
also
shared
his own family’s meaningful
traditions
for
a
yearly
ceremony
during
the
fall
called the Ghost Suppers.
Ever since he was a child,
Hemenway’s
family
has
participated in the ceremony,
which included many home-
cooked
dishes,
Hemenway
said. Eating at least one bite of
every single dish is part of the
ceremony because it signifies
that someone on “the other
side” — an ancestor who has
passed away — is also eating.
“We open the house to not
just our immediate family, but
to anybody. If you hear about
the supper you’re invited,”
Hemenway said. “That’s how
it works, it’s the hospitality …
It’s these activities that show
this continuity of connection
and culture and beliefs in
a home. And it would be
very, very difficult to have
this connection if I was in
(somewhere
like)
Kansas.
You could do it, but it doesn’t
have the impact, doesn’t have
the power that it does when
you’re going to the grave
of your grandmother, and
putting a reef on, and then the
next day, feeding her.”
LSA sophomore Lindsey
Smith attended the event
after hearing about it from
sociology professor Arland
Thornton, who coordinated
the event. Smith also works in
a museum studies class that
focuses on repatriations, and
was interested to hear more
about Hemenway’s work.
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