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ᓃᐱᓰᐦᑯᐹᐃᐧᔨᓂᐤ nîpisîhkopâwiyiniw. writing, curation, research, color and light. also at @photoindigenous ᒪᓯᓈᐱᐢᑲᐦᐃᑫᐤ

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“He very much captured the fact that this is not wilderness, or Terra Nullius, this is not new found land. This is land where people have lived for thousands of years…” ‘People of the Watershed’ (Figure.1|McMichael) on exhibit and at bookstores.

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Interview: Paul Seesequasis on John Macfie's Photography and People of the Watershed • Figure 1...

Paul Seesequasis: I first met John Macfie through Facebook, actually, this would be about five years ago. He was already in his early 90s and I was just lucky to get a hold of him. I had encounte...

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Yes the return of Buffalo makes me very happy but as much so does the return of swift foxes to the prairies. They, along with bison and prairie wolves and grizzlies, were wiped out in the late 1800s.

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Josephine Baker, 1950. Everett Collection/CSU Archives

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The news emerging from James Smith Cree Nation is horrific. My condolences and prayers for the victims, their families and friends. May the suspects be apprehended soon and there be no more victims.

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My great great grandfather 1910 petition to Canadian government. “We think we are capable of taking care of our children when at school. The white man loves his children and likes to have them round him in the evenings and on the days in which school is not open. We also...

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Saskatchewan Indian country is more than trauma. Saskatchewan Indian country has many great things happening. Some day, maybe that will be news.

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January 28, 2013: 9 years ago today I was in Ottawa at a far different event, Idle No More’s Day of Action. I remember far less media attention, disinterest from politicians of all stripes, and a few AFN Chiefs jumping on the last-minute bandwagon. Photo: Paul Seesequasis

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❤️ Some good news to begin your day: A total of four new calves have been born at Wanuskewin Heritage Park. The first calves since 1876. Welcome back buffalo ❤️

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‘Johnny Cash, June Carter’ ~ Folsom Prison, 1968 Photo: Jim Marshall © Jim Marshall

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Annie Mckay ~ (Métis) ~ 1st Indigenous woman to graduate from Univ of Sask, a librarian, 104 years ago. That’s revolutionary. Source: U of S

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Tomorrow’s news regarding Marieval Indian Residential School will be devastating if not a surprise for some. Put your self care first. As a FN person You are under no obligation to speak to this or engage it on social media. Go outside. Breath. Do ceremony. Sending 🖤

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Happy journey mom. I know you’re laughing now with our ancestors 💔

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PSI: Just a reminder that 99% of the quotes attributed to Sitting Bull, and other ‘famous male chiefs’, are false, and most likely sourced from new age writers like Paul Coelho. (Also, in many cases of the photos themselves, the women are cropped out).

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... love our children with just as warm as affection as the white man and we want to keep them around." ~ Joseph Seesequasis, 1910 Petition to end Residential Schools, Beardy's Reserve.

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Happy birthday Colten Boushie. It’s your day.

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Respect the Haida. Stay away from Haida Gwaii.

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Grandmother’s Prayers | © Wakeah Jhane (Comanche/Kiowa)

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Members of the Bolivian skateboard collective ImmilaSkate. Photo: © Celia D’Luna |

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🖤First time since 1876, a baby bison is born on the lands of Wanuskewin 🖤 #Sask #bison #YXE

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For the first time since the year 1876 a bison has been born on the land at Wanuskewin. We thank the Elders for their guidance during this exciting time! Although the park remains closed at this time we cannot wait to welcome the community back to join us

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Left to right, Skyler Williams 32 yrs out of 736 Mohawk from Six Nations, Brandon Hill 35yrs old out of 736 Cayuga from Six Nations. Jonny Johnson 70yrs old out of 721 Ojibway from Kitchener. Showing the young guys how to connect. Photo: International Brotherhood of Ironworkers

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Just a reminder, almost 30 years before David Grann's ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ (2017), a Native author, Linda Hogan (Chickasaw) wrote ‘Mean Spirit,’ which was nominated for the 1991 Pulitzer

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A reminder that in the 60s, there were many Indigenous women who spoke out, they may not have had the spotlight of a BSM, but women like Kahntinetha Horn, spoke out, not just against colonial policies, but also against patriarchal male Indian leadership. Look them up.

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The Aaguyaq Madonna | 🎨 Linda Infante Lyons (Alutiiq) Private Collection

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This headline story of children running away from residential school was one of many published during Minister of Indian Affairs Jean Chrétien’s tenure. Apparently the minister did not read newspapers. Not once.

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They ALL have names. Respect to generations of my family and kin who went to St. Michael’s Residential School ~ 1931. Duck Lake, Sask ~ 1) Maggie Bird, 2) Mary Rose Naytowhow 3) Ada Wolfe, 4) Philomene Peeteetuce, 5) Dorothy Eyahpaise, 6) Mary Anne Seesequasis...

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One positive of this I hope is that the Ontario result forever lays to rest the myth that ‘Canada’ is more tolerant and liberal than the United States. Having spent most of my life on the prairies, I know that’s never been the case.

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Mom, 85, cancer is maglignent, no chemo, her rules, she will let it ride. Tobacco down. ekosi. Prayers down.

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Two boys in Pond Inlet, taken in 1950. Like the other Neville photos, the Estate would like to give free High Rez prints to the relatives if they can be identified.

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Reposting this again for anyone who likes and maybe even brighten a little what is often such a caustic space. ‘Girl with puppies' ~ (Dene) ~ -- NWT 1971 Photo: Richard Pierre [NWT Archives]

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Happy 80th Buffy Sainte-Marie 🎶 Photo: Phillip Harrington (NYC 1964) / Personal Collection

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“It’s a spear piece, crafted from caribou antler, carved with a series of rolling wave-like shapes. Carbon dating places the artifact’s age at 8,100 years—older than Ancient Greece by some five millennia. Empires around the world rose, fell...

The Oldest Art In The North

A spear piece from 8,000 years ago in the Yukon says a lot about how art is interpreted today.

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This is Maria Mikenak and you wont find her in any ‘history’ books. She lived off the land near Lake Saint Joseph in northwestern Ontario. When photographer Macfie met her she was probably already in her late sixties. She paddled into town once a month to pick…

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A hub of creativity when I came to Toronto in the mid-80s, was Kinkos on Bloor. It had computers you could rent by the minute (no one (I knew) could afford a computer), it was 24-7, and the printers were booked with activists, bands, poet & artist types, and weird freako dudes…

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Welcome home to Poundmaker buffalo 🦬 and I love how you case the joint out

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For the first time in over a century, plains bison are roaming on Poundmaker Cree Nation territory in Saskatchewan again.

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My late uncle Gordon Tootoosis acted with Donald Sutherland in the 1974 flic, ‘Alien Thunder’: The Story of AlmightyVoice (also known as ‘John Candy’s Law’). Tootoosis played Almighty Voice. His memories of Sutherland weren’t especially fond.

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A new website in the works - The Indigenous Archival Photo Project has been a labour of love and I hope it has resonated with many. I am grateful to families who have reached out and named photographs as well as photographers, archivists and lately private individuals who have

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Gordon Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan closed in 1996. That is not ancient history.

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"What I love about art is that it is what I am. It makes my spirit and spiritual life complete. There isn't any other reason." - Alex Janvier (1935-2024) 📷 Wayne Cuddington | PostMedia

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A little joy… ‘Girl with puppies' ~ (Dene) ~ -- NWT 1971 Photo: © Richard Pierre [NWT Archives]

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I don’t buy the ‘it’s only trolls’ argument regarding the MMIWG report; these are deeply held views, carried over generations and an undeniable part of the Canadian settler state. For those tweeting against the word genocide, there are many more silent but agreeing with them.

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Spider-Man Meets Spider-Woman | © Ryan Singer (Diné)

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“The wheel is 1,000 years older than Stonehenge, 3,500 years older than the Mayan Pyramid of Chichen Itza, 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza.”

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Canada's Stonehenge older than many great spirit sites of the world

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The pass is dated June 3, 1896, a Wednesday. It gives permission for my great-great-grandfather, Joe Seesequasis, to visit his children, Jean, a girl, and John, who were hundreds of miles away in Regina attending the Indian Industrial Boarding School. I can barely fathom the...

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Macdonald not only hanged Riel but also orchestrated the largest mass hanging in Canadian history and children were brought out to watch as a ‘lesson,’ so if you’re going to defend Macdonald, be sure to defend this. #JohnAMacdonald

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After cancelling my December event at @torontolibrary in solidarity with the Trans community, I’m overwhelmed by the number of venues offering to host. It’s heart-warming. I’ll speak to the bookseller and figure the best option and I look forward to seeing you #YYZ in December ❤️

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For those citing 4,000 and 1980 as if its the total and not genocide, Helen Betty Osborne was abducted and murdered by white men in The Pas in 1971 and she wasn't counted in the inquiry. There are thousands of others, going back decades. This is your genocide. Wear it.

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"They don't just embrace their culture but also do it while practising extreme sports… to me, (that’s) the ultimate way to make recontextualise Cholitas." | Celia D. Luna's photo series celebrates Indigenous Bolivian women skaters Story: Photo © C. Luna

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Happy summer solstice Tattooed Sun, 1994. stonecut | © Kenojuak Ashevak Estate

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Photo from Georges Erasmus. What’s left of the Dene Art Gallery in Enterprise, NWT. Heartbreaking. Also condolences to Dene fashion designer D’Arcy Moses whose studio was lost.

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They ALL have names. Respect to generations of my family and kin who went to St. Michael’s Residential School ~ 1931. Duck Lake, Sask ~ 1) Maggie Bird, 2) Mary Rose Naytowhow 3) Ada Wolfe, 4) Philomene Peeteetuce, 5) Dorothy Eyahpaise, 6) Mary Anne Seesequasis... 7) Veronique…

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Congratulations to my son, Coltrane Seesequasis, for his first book deal for his YA series ‘A WOLF IN THE SUN’, a four-part series set in a post human world where certain animals are sentient. With Kegedonce Press. Rep by The Rights Factory.

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Tobacco down for the Young family, everyone at Red Earth, and for all the searchers. Frank is home now. 💔

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Swallows | Benjamin Chee Chee (Anishinaabe)

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These were bought at a recent auction. The buyer would love to see them returned to the family. If you recognize DM me. Items from Labrador c1905, and were in the estate of a Moravian missionary.

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Someone commented awhile ago, how Allen Sapp (Plains Cree), self-taught, captured all this from memory. And how he captures winter light. Collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, gift of John and Monica Kurtz in Memory of James Kurtz.

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Raven Steals the Sun (blown & sand-carved glass) | Preston Singletary (Tlingit). Photo: Russell Johnson. Part of The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. At The National Gallery of Art.

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If you’re going to be licensing their images you should also have their names. They have names.

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A member of the Minga Indigena indigenous delegation attends the #COP26 UN Climate Summit in #Glasgow , Scotland 📷: @Chris_Furlong #COP26Glasgow #ClimateAction

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Happy 78th Buffy Sainte-Marie! Greenwich Village 1964 Photo: Phillip Harrington Collection: PS

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My mother, ca. 1955, after St. Michael’s Residential School she attended the School of Nursing in Humboldt. I sensed her independent spirit and desire to live free of constraints. Like many children of survivors, even though she raised me, I still feel I really didn’t know her.

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Standing Rock. Photo: Ryan Vizzions./ © Ryan Vizzions

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'Girl with two puppies' ~ (Dene) ~ --, NWT 1971 Photo: Rene Pierre [NWT Archives]

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Wonderful news 🖤

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Suggesting Saskatchewan is more racist than Ontario is a bit precious coming from a province with two neo-nazi’s running for mayor

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Thinking today of my mom Mary, uncles and aunties Merv, Irene, George, Dave, Ruth Seesequasis who attended St. Michaels Residential School at Duck Lake, Sask and also two other uncles who died there as children.

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I’ve done a lot of webinars recently and this Rene Fumoleau photo of Dene children in Délįne, NWT in 1971 comes up a lot in chat. And I concur (it’s joy).

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'Father & child' ~ (Cree) ~Prince Albert, Sask c1920 Source: PA Hist. Soc.

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3 year old Saranne Sakanee helping her mom get water from the reverse osmosis system. We’re going on our 26th year boil water advisory. Shame on Canada for putting us through this #bwa #neskantagafn #shameoncanada #reconciliationisdead

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The girl in this photo has been identified as Eunice Nimiqraqruaq Ochakpaut Nuliayuk. She grew up in Spence Bay (Taloyoak). She married in 1969. She died in 1972 in the tragic Martin Hartwell plane crash.

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A young Inuit girl with her husky puppy, 1949.

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Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto 2020 Today thru Nov 28 online ⁦ @IFWtoronto ⁩ at

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In November, 1853 Solomon Carvalho, with his 10 pound daguerreotype camera, took what is likely the earliest photo of Native Americans in the west. While the camera, in the next few decades, would be an instrument of manifest destiny, this is one of the earliest images. In the…

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Meet the two 19-year-olds at the heart of the Saskatoon Wet’suwet’en camp “For three days, McNab and Kelly have ate their meals by a fire and sleep in a tent just metres away from where trains pass” #TreatySixtoWetsuweten #YXE

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Meet the two 19-year-olds at the heart of the Saskatoon Wet’suwet’en camp | Globalnews.ca

Kiyari McNab and David Kelly set up camp on Saturday afternoon and haven't left.

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We are not Alabama. We are not Selma. This is not the 1950s. Please don’t diminish Black struggles or Indigenous ones by suggesting this. This is here and now. 2018.

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Language tip #1 : Never, ever, shame someone for saying a word wrong, not accenting correctly, using wrong tense: language is a gift, it changes with us; a new generation keeps it alive.

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Arlette Loudhawk, Oglala Lakota, resting during The Longest Walk to Washington, D.C. 1978. Photo: Dick Bancroft

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Seeking confirmation of the name of the Indigenous man confronting Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chrétien during White Paper days, 1969. Also location. Photo by Franz Meier and republished in Globe and Mail, 2009 with no caption. DM me if you know.

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'Girl with puppies' ~ (Dene) ~ -- NWT 1971 Photo: Richard Pierre [NWT Archives]

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Mask Series | © Andy Everson (K’ómoks/Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw)

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This photo of an Inuk woman and child has yet to be named. The photo appeared in the Final Report of Reclaiming Power And Place. No place either but a handwritten note says 1948. Handwritten captioned ‘A mother kisses her child.’ Library and Archives Cananda (No. 70)

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Best 5 word movie review ever?

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Dances with Wolves.

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“Each fragile quilt is intended to eventually disintegrate, much the same way that prayer cloth would eventually bleach, fray, and erode in nature.” Wally Dion’s translucent quilts:

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Especially today let our Indigenous youth know we treasure and love them. Especially today we fight for their right to live and for a just future. #JusticeforTina #JusticeforColten

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Back in Sask. You raise it. We’ll rip it.

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For all you racist yahoos calling for the army: this is the reality for children in Kahnwake; who need protection from you fucking idiots. I was there in 1990 and saw the army called. You settler tools have no clue. These are children 30 years later. This is no game.

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Swift foxes. Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan Photo: © John E Marriott/age fotostoc

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8 months

Cold snap on the prairie | Earl Biss (Apsáalooke) 1947-1998 Private Collection

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4 years

“Smallpox” (2009) ~ Ruth Cuthand (Cree) ~ Beads and acrylic on suede board, 24″ x 18″, collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina.

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Best part of Mothers' Day is hearing my mom speak Cree to her sister despite 12 years of residential school trying to beat it out of her

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4 years

Deep cleaning today unearthed this selfie of 16-year-old me. Photography was always a passion though high school steered me towards ‘shop’ which I hated. Somehow, though, we always gravitate back to our passion.

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Another iconic ‘rocky mountain’ photo, ‘The Indian Madonna’ by Elliot Barnes, was taken near Maligne Lake, in what is now Jasper National Park, or on the Kootenay Plains. The woman is Gussie Abraham, the child’s name is lost. The Abraham’s were a well known Stoney Nakoda family.

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Chief Dan George, Johnny Yesno and Bucky Petawabano in a still from 1975’s ‘Cold Journey,’ maybe the first film dealing with the legacy of residential schools, and with an Indigenous cast. Shot in The Pas and Pelican Narrows and part of the NFB’s Indian Film Training Program.

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Our ancestral spirits walk with us, 2022 | © Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Hul’q’umi’num/Syilx)

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Self-taught Cree painter Allen Sapp had the gift of capturing the colors of a northern prairie summer.

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6 years

Again, He was NOT a ‘tourist.’ He paid to get to the island. He went to proselytise. He was a germ-ridden intruder.

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6 years

US tourist shot dead with arrows by endangered tribe after ignoring ban on visiting island.

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She was a kid. Just a kid. Wrapped in a duvet and thrown into a river. A kid whose father had just been beaten to death. Your headlines are shameful. You should be ashamed. #CBC #CanadianPress

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It's difficult not to conclude that @CBCManitoba + @CdnPress have engaged in some pretty serious victim-blaming here with their headlines about #TinaFontaine trial

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6 years

These two Indigenous nurse trainees are someone’s grandmothers or great grandmothers and they blazed trails; let’s get them named. Edmonton. 1954 Photo: Rosemary Eaton [LAC]

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6 years

As someone who has dealt with depression for years and two suicide attempts, last one with RCMP knocking on my door, don’t compare life situations nor suggest it’s a selfish act. It’s a dark hole that’s ever present. Always there. And yes, regardless of the light, it often wins.

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7 years

My mother, 85 and a residential school survivor, called this verdict a week ago. She’s lived as a nehiyaw iskwew in this province all her life. I disagreed, said manslaughter. At my age I still have a lot to learn.

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ᐸᒥᐦᐃᓯᐃᐧᐣ [pamihisiwin] - The act of taking care of oneself; the act of personal care. Tweeted this Cree word before but it seems timely now; with current events, especially being bombarded daily with it on social media, take the breaks you need, find nature, friends..

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6 years

Year-long ‘sting.’ 90 bucks...

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Indigenous fisherman found guilty of illegally selling $90 of fish after year-long sting

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4 years

This photo was taken in Arctic Bay in 1950. It is part of a series belong to the Neville family estate and the family would love if they were named and to send prints to descendants.

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