Uncommon Bonds: Labrador 2023 Open Houses
Mark David Turner, Co-Principal Investigator
may 25, 2023
Uncommon Bonds: Labrador Inuit and Moravian Missionaries is a three year partnership between the Nunatsiavut Government, Moravian Archives (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Moravian Church in Newfoundland and Labrador, Memorial University Libraries and the National Heritage Digitization Strategy focussing on the digitization and digital return of nearly 60,000 pages of archival resources concerning Labrador Inuit. This website is intended to help with the interpretation of these record as well as the broad range of digitized records resulting from contact between Labrador Inuit and Moravian missionaries.
The project is supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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On Thursday, May 25 we will be embarking on a series of Open Houses in Labrador to promote “Uncommon Bonds: Labrador Inuit and Moravian Missionaries”. We are very excited for these events which will be a mix of short presentations and informal discussion. Our goal is to introduce you to the project, to introduce you to some of the people that have been involved in its development and to learn ways we might enhance Uncommon Bonds during its next phase.
In addition to a large roster of people involved in the project, Tom Gordon will also be joining us to launch his new book, Called Upstairs: Moravian Inuit Music in Labrador. Tom’s work on Moravian Inuit musical traditions makes extensive use of a range of records created in northern Labrador. We are delighted to celebrate the launch with Tom and to explore how uncommonbonds.org might be used to help organize the treasury of Moravian Inuit music.