A beaded bag by a Cree artist from James Bay circa 1865 (photo courtesy of Professor Kristen Bos)
Kristen Bos initially resisted going into the field of Indigenous studies.
“I started out in archaeology and wondered why it was that I and so many other native friends and scholars were doing work in either anthropology or archaeology,” says Bos, an assistant professor in the department of historical studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga.