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Mishiikenh Kwe

@mishiikenhkwe

7 months

some paintings I've done in the past year that I love a lot.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

I was 12 when my family doctor told me I needed birth control the depo-provera shot because “native women are very fertile and we don’t need more native teen moms” 🤢

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 months

Maple syrup is an Anishinaabe invention, not Canadian.

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3 years

Reminder that babies don’t understand manipulation, they cry because they have needs you fkn weirdos

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4 years

Indigenous peoples have the inherent right to feed themselves by hunting, fishing and harvesting from the lands they live on. This right was passed down from our ancestors, not treaty.

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4 years

maple syrup isn’t Canadian 🤢 it’s indigenous

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

forcibly removing indigenous children from their families and communities is genocide

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11 months

Don’t forget countries like Canada and the US support Israel because they’re also settler colonial states who rely on genocide of Indigenous people and the denial of said genocide

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

everyone always talks about how the last residential school closed in the 90s but never about how child removal, displacement & assimilation didn’t stop with residential schools, or the 60s scoop, or day schools.. it is still happening.

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3 years

I stole this from someone on fb. I like it a lot.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

Burn sage, sweetgrass & the Indian Act

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 months

It’s not “cultural genocide” when our living conditions on rez are still causing us to die younger on average, when settlers are free to murder us & walk free, when children are being apprehended & dying in care & half of all children in care are still indigenous children, etc..

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1 year

Grandma scares the bear away. 💓

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2 years

This loon though 🥹❤️

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2 years

May the 4th be with you artwork by Mishiikenh Kwe, 2019

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

when people say “it’s in the past” about colonialism but my mom was stolen and sold to a French Catholic family as part of a government program to civilize indigenous people through apprehending and displacing our children 🙃 yeah, I’m gonna be mean

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

I just sold this! 🥰😭

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

support living artists

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2 years

Buy Indigenous art from living Indigenous artists

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

winter storytelling, 18x24 inches not for sale

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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4 years

let native kids whose skills aren’t valued or given space to grow in schools drop out. we need more native kids who can speak their language, know their ceremonies, re-tell their grandparent’s stories, navigate using the stars and less kids struggling in western institutions

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

Natives asking other natives where they come from and who their family are is normal

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11 months

I’m not an “indigenous Canadian,” whatever that is, I’m Anishinaabe.

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3 years

Ppl are so hurt that my painting is expensive lol but I spent two weeks on this big fucker, ok? it takes up a whole wall in my apartment, look. 😂😭

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2 years

This is still one of my favourites. Full moon ceremony, 2019

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

Here’s “6 turtles” in natural light! I got too excited and posted yesterday but prefer natural light to the yellow light I was using last night to take pictures

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

Racist artwork suggesting that my community’s elders only approached the pope for an apology for some kind of compensation. My great uncle had his hip broken by a teacher at an Indian Day School. My aunt never spoke her language out loud again after Indian Residential School.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

A few people told me recently they didn’t know I painted nishnaabe baby yoda, lol. I painted six of them, actually

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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4 months

this is my first arts award ❤️

Native Women in the Arts

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Native Women in the Arts is pleased to announce the winner of the 9th Annual Barbara Laronde Emerging Artist Award - Mishiikenh Kwe Autumn Smith!

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

a friend shared this on Facebook. all these places need to be checked for bodies

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1 year

Maybe the sixties scoop doesn’t get talked about as much as residential schools because Canada doesn’t want anyone else to realize they never stopped taking our children. Maybe they want everyone to believe that the genocide ended in 1996.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

a self portrait. when I was pregnant with my son last year.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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10 months

my son is really in to dinosaurs right now, painted this for him today.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

Here’s my “binaabekwe” painting that Ivy stole for TikTok.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

Not for sale

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

FREE download here: You have my permission to use these photos for educational purposes ***DO NOT SELL OR ALTER THESE IMAGES WITHOUT PERMISSION***

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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1 year

Two spirit people have always existed in Indigenous cultures under different words that didn’t exist in the English language, it wasn’t until the 90s someone created the English term for it. That doesn’t two spirit identities were created in the 90s.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

there’s fish and turtles who are older than Canada

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

Pls do not make native art if you aren’t indigenous

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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1 year

my art is on Hilroy books, find them at Walmart locations across Canada.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

buy art from living indigenous ppl

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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4 months

I helped this mskwaadesiinhs (little painted turtle) cross the road today

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

Again - non-indigenous people should not be raising Indigenous children. It is in the best interest of every Indigenous child to be raised in their culture, preferably with relatives. The money spend on apprehending & displacing our children could be better spent on families.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

Hey stop apologizing. Please. Send reparations if you’re that sorry lol. Everything goes towards my 8mo son and me. / daniellasmith @live .com

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

canadian art teachers pls stop telling your non-indigenous students it’s ok to make indigenous styles of art, thanks

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 months

This guy has been hanging out around the rez for a few days now, at the gas station, in my yard, by the band office, at the park. His name is Ichabod Jijaak or Ichabod Crane. We adopted him as a community member & made him a status card

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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10 months

the land is alive

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

Hi new followers 🥹 my name is Autumn, I’m an Ojibwe and Odawa (Anishinaabe) painter from Magnetawan First Nation, north of Parry Sound, Ontario. I like to tell stories about my dreams and things my teachers shared with me through my art. Thank you for being here. 💗

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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11 months

What’s up with people on here saying they’ve never seen “native Americans” lately lmao

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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10 months

💓

Abier

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10 months

Look who’s dancing for free #Palestine 💕💕💕 My heart 💜 #Gaza

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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4 months

May the 4th be with you ✨ I painted this in 2019 and called it “Yodenhs” because we didn’t know his name was Grogu yet.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

February paintings! I completed 16 of them.

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1 year

this is taking me a long time but it looks cute right?

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3 years

Mooz. Not for sale

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

even my nearly 11 month old when he cries because I don’t let him put gross stuff in his mouth lol. he cries because he doesn’t get it & his teeth hurt and that’s why he’s putting stuff in his mouth. Poor guy

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

I want to see movies about native people that aren’t about our trauma

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

Happy Indigenous People’s day! Here’s some recent paintings I made. I’m an Ojibway artist from Magnetawan First Nation in Ontario, Canada. The leaves are still available. 🥰 Indigenous followers pls share your art in the replies & I’ll share it!

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

please don’t forget about native parents who still live in fear of our children being stolen

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

Anishinaabe art is not Canadian art. The Anishinaabek are a nation that predate Canada, and Canada only exists because of agreements they made with our ancestors.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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1 year

ppl are mad about it but she’s right. Indigenous people have been saying this. how tf you gonna pay foster families, group home workers, social workers & their supervisors but can’t give support to a family living in poverty so they can avoid losing their children to the system?

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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6 months

grandma scares the bear away

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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4 years

102 indigenous children died under the care of child welfare workers in Ontario between 2013-2017.. just in case u were gonna say some more bullshit about how social workers should replace cops. Fuck that.

Death as Expected: Inside a child welfare system where 102 Indigenous kids died over 5 years - APTN...

A two year APTN News investigation found that 102 children have died in child welfare agencies since 2013 and chronic underfunding is partly to blame.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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10 months

I don't want to work anymore, I want to wake up and cook and make coffee over a fire and then clean up my camp and paint in the bush like I used to. I want to go pick medicines for teas and tell stories at night, I don't want to walk in two worlds I just want to be Anishinaabe.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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1 year

thinking about how on this so called Truth and Reconciliation day more than half of children “in care” in Canada are still Indigenous, and how my mom was scooped and people still don’t really talk much about the child welfare system on TRC day but I think

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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7 months

I love this beaver so much

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

from Embers by Richard Wagamese. 💗

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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1 year

non-indigenous people are not the experts on Indigenous cultures. argue with me all you want, there’s nothing you can do to convince me. You are not the expert on my own lived experience and cultural knowledge.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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4 months

This came in the mail today!

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

I’m one month sober from alcohol today. This is my third time trying to quit. I made it to 26 months last time.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

please don’t @ me to apologize lmao that’s weird

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4 years

let native kids know that there’s other options than western education & encourage them to do what feels right. let them know we still need healers and artists and storytellers. We need people with knowledge about plant medicines, language speakers and ceremony leaders. 💖

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

hello. I do not sell paintings for $40. I haven’t done that since I was homeless and living in a tent. pls pay artists what we are worth.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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10 months

Indigenous children represent more than half of the child welfare system yet we make up only around 5% of the population in Canada. This is a continuation of the sixties scoop, Indian day schools and residential schools, the goal being to assimilate us and destroy our cultures.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

I just made this available as a colouring page! It is free to print out and colour for personal use - a gift to show my appreciation for the support I’ve received online since I started painting full-time in 2018. Download it here Miigwech. 💗

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

I always lose followers when I remind you guys but I like they/them pronouns - I live in rural northern Ontario so can handle she/her but it makes me feel good when my pronouns are respected, thanks friends

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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4 months

English is a foreign language in the Americas & the reason you think everyone should be speaking English is a result of British colonialism & white supremacy!! Embarrassing. Truthfully you should all be learning the language of whatever indigenous people’s lands you’re on.

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Don’t beat me up when I say this but immigrants should be required to learn English when they first come to America it’s no way in hell we are REQUIRED to graduate highschool with at least 2 years of Spanish or a foreign language meanwhile they’re kicking their feet up in esol🤔

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

reasons why some children in my family were taken according to the CFS: mother “too young” baby not baptized children not going to church other siblings already in care crowded housing

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

wild roses and strawberries 12x14 inches $500 Canadian dollars plus shipping

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3 years

punk rockers by norval morrisseau

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

If you’re not comfortable telling people what indigenous community you belong to and who your people are, maybe you’re not ready to be an artist, musician, filmmaker or in a position where you’re making a living off of being indigenous.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

me & my grandmother

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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10 months

lol this baby in a tikinagan I just drew

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1 year

Toronto please tell me if these burgers are any good

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6 months

some fat partridges I painted this year

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

water lilies, lily pads, marsh marigold and cattails. 10x10 inches not for sale

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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10 months

“seasons” commissioned by the Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve for State of the Bay magazine earlier this year

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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3 years

My last few paintings! I really feel like I am improving. ❤️ it feels so good to be painting again.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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2 years

just deleted a white woman on my Facebook who got a job working for a native child welfare agency. I don’t care how culturally sensitive you think you are, If you’re non-indigenous working for an agency that apprehends indigenous children, you’re a modern day colonizer.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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11 months

#NewProfilePic

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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9 months

I sat down to make art today and all I could think about was the ongoing genocide happening in Palestine. ode'iminan, the heart berry represents love and life, and caring for our communities among other things, and the watermelon is a symbol of Palestinian resistance.

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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1 year

this rez dispensary I’m at is called THC the high council lol

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Mishiikenh Kwe

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10 months

indigenous artwork doesn’t have to look like “indigenous art.” all art made by indigenous people is indigenous art. and the idea that it has to look a certain way to be authentic native art is why a lot of native art sucks.