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. 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