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Thousands of people gathered Saturday at the Indigenous Summer Solstice Festival in Ottawa to celebrate the heritage, culture and resilience of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples.
Meanwhile, Ottawa residents and visitors attended workshops to learn how to create medicinal candles and Cree birch bark art, while others watched performances by Indigenous artists at the celebration ...
The installation is one part art, one part traditional, and all parts IKEA. In the first room, customers are welcomed by signage, in Ojibwa, Cree, and English, that explains traditional ceremonies.
This weekend marks the second annual Upper Peninsula Folk Festival, which will feature many different ways to celebrate U.P. culture and heritage, including the screening of a documentary about the ...
Ojibway artist Helen Pelletier brings more than two decades of birch bark experience and learning from Elders, mentors and community members to Victoria later this month. The Aunty Collective Gallery ...
Nora Moore Lloyd (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, born 1947) was trained as a photographer and videographer. She works in multiple mediums to create artworks that document the ...
Nora Moore Lloyd: I’ve collected bark from old fallen birch trees on my Wisconsin property at Lac Courte Oreilles – painting Bluesky ancestors’ names on birchbark was a tactile and visual ...
For generations, the Ojibwe tribes have been using the papery bark of the birch tree for all sorts of artistic and practical endeavors. Birchbark canoes might come to mind, but the versatile bark of ...