Brightening the Covenant Chain
International collaboration revealing globally significant cultures of diplomacy between the Crown, the Haudenosaunee and their neighbours in North America.
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Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Crown and the Iroquois Confederacy. Press release and project launch.
Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom, Standard Research Grant AH/T006099/1 (£931,000), 2021-24
People: Joy Porter, Charles Prior, Pekka Hämäläinen, Mark Walters, Dale Turner with artistic and interpretive contributions by Celeste Pedri-Spade and an immersive Soundscape of Haudenosaunee diplomatic orations by Thanyehténhas (Nathan Brinklow), Haohyoh (Ken Maracle) and Sakokwenionkwas (Tom Porter).
Project Partners: Georgian Papers Programme, the Eccles Centre for American Studies, the American Museum and Gardens (Bath), the North American Native Museum, King’s Digital Lab, Johnson Hall Historic Site (New York), and the Northeast Native Research Collaborative
Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Archival): Dr Laura Gillespie
Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Digital): Dr Matthias Wong
Project Administrator: Rachel Dickens
Research Programmes
Connecting Cultures
A collaborative project revealing how historic sites can position themselves as global crossroads, enabling multiple global publics to connect their lived experience with them.
Diplomacy and Treaties
International collaboration revealing globally significant cultures of diplomacy between the Crown, the Haudenosaunee and their neighbours in North America.
Digital Storytelling
Digital resources that involve the public, advance research, energise teaching, and drive knowledge exchange, built in partnership with the UK’s foremost research software engineers.
Political Ecologies
Timely interventions that examine the power relations between Indigenous actors and the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
Globalising Archives, Museums, and Heritage Sites
Connecting significant national collections with their global Indigenous histories.
