- - - Growing up, I knew I was mixed. I knew my mother and my father came from different backgrounds; my mother looked different than my father. She is Native and my dad is white. I’ve always known this, but never understood it growing up. Discerning, when you’re a child, why your mother looks

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In a previous post, I described what it is like as an Alberta Métis to come to Quebec and realise that ‘Métis’ does not mean the same thing here. I’m not a shut-in…I realis…

ojibwe embroidery

This is the latest piece, measure 16 in by 16 in beaded Ojibwe floral on black broadcloth. It is currently being framed and museum glass put over it. Will be for sale. Please only serious inquires. Thanks everyone!!!! Enjoy the "seasons of flowers". I will repost pics once framed. By Jessica Gokey 2014 can find me on fb.

In Canada, June is National Indigenous History Month. Every June, the Government of Canada honours the histories, achievements and resilience of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples, who have cared for this land since time immemorial. I decided to do a Métis dot painting lesson with my Grade 7-9 students. Dot art is a contemporary art form inspired by Métis beadwork where beads are replaced with small dots of colourful paint. One of my colleagues is Métis, so I asked her if she would be…

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Christi Belcourt's work takes my breath away.