A patchwork beaded map of Canada and the U.S. has created a deep sense of connection and collective therapy for Indigenous artists across Turtle Island, or North America, with funds from the project going towards beading programs in both countries.
“Working on this project gave me that little boost of confidence to embark on learning my language again and I can now introduce myself in Mi’kmaq,” Toronto-based Mi’kmaq artist Mel Compton, who beaded a swatch of green and coastal blues in the shape of K’taqamkuk , said in an email.
She tearfully recounted how her design was inspired by memories of her late father, who died in a motorcycle accident in 2018. “When I was a young girl, I was looking out the back window and saw the northern lights and I said to my dad, ‘I think there are aliens coming.” Using the hashtag, #BeadYourState, she called out for Indigenous artists to send in submissions of their beadwork designs of different states. But artists from Canada quickly jumped on the bandwagon and kicked off the #BeadYourProvince hashtag.
But with no submissions for Nunavut, the Canadian map nearly didn’t come together. So the day before the final deadline in August, Cree Rena Laboucan from Driftpile Cree Nation in Alberta volunteered to tackle it and frantically began beading.
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