Elsipogtog First Nation school kicks off the year in regalia
Mi'kmaw students returned to school in Elsipogtog First Nation this week wearing smiles and traditional regalia.
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Mi'kmaw students returned to school in Elsipogtog First Nation this week wearing smiles and traditional regalia.
TORONTO -- This intricate map took months to put together, a project fuelled by pandemic boredom and a willingness from dozens of artists to come together and pour themselves into a millennia-old practice. Since March 2020, Indigenous artists from across the U.S. and Canada have been using beading and stitching techniques to create a beaded patchwork of a map of provinces, territories and U.S. states which make up North America, or Turtle Island as it’s known to many Indigenous people. People beaded their sections and sent in high-quality photos to CeeJay Johnson, a Dakota and Tlingi...