Presented by Alison Norman
Summary:
Alison will discuss how she has used genealogy to gain a better understanding of the community at Six Nations of the Grand River in the early twentieth century.
Description:
In this presentation, Alison will discuss how she has used genealogy to gain a better understanding of the community at Six Nations of the Grand River, and especially women, in the early twentieth century. She has been researching the community for 20 years, building relationships, and learning Haudenosaunee history. She will discuss how and why she built family trees and investigated relationships between families of the Six Nations, and also several British women who were connected to the community and worked as allies. This presentation comes from an outsider perspective, and will also discuss the limits to doing research about a community that is not your own.
