Santee Smith on tour with Transmigration, 2015. Photo: Amie Roussel, Carousel Studios Music and dance are celebrations of Life, the body is a vessel for the spirit and the artist is a culture bearer. MUSKRAT had the opportunity to speak with Mohawk choreographer and Artistic Director, Santee Tekaronhiáh...
Mary Lou and Dan Smoke. Photo: DodemKanonhsa.ca I realized that the reason I knew where to get those berries was because of the blood memory from my great-great-great grandmother back in 1542. Being an Elder is not something that people get to decide for themselves. Most often it is through their engage...
Photo: Keesic Douglas …emotionally, I was like a pressure cooker, just cooking and cooking until one night, boom, I exploded… In Part One of MUSKRAT’S interview, award winning actor Glen Gould spoke about deeply personal and tragic events in his life, and how he self-medicated to avoid dealing with the...
Photo: Keesic Douglas There is a certain kind of natural method acting that happens, just because of the nature of the character, and my own personal life, so it kind of stirred up the mud. Mi’kmaq actor Glen Gould has been getting some well-deserved and hard earned attention lately. In early November 2...
Photo: Joanthon Potskin Awowakii means “Crossing over, a term that is applied to men who live as/or have transitioned into a woman.” Sable Sweetgrass is a name that not only rolls off the tongue nicely, it is very likely a name we will hear more of. Sable started writing in Grade 6 when she got ...
..when I see objects behind glass, [I ask] “are they filling their function, or purpose? Are they living their life”? The MUSKRAT team recently made a trip to Montréal for the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC) Colloquium iakwé:iahre / we remember (October 16-18, 2014). The Colloquiam deconstructed...
I’ve had everything from people throwing their beer bottles at me and screaming, and people angry, and people crying their faces off like really crying from right in their heart. I’ve had laughing. I’ve had boners. Tanya Tagaq Chats with Native Waves Radio Host Janet Rogers about spirit, music food, and...
…he was considered to have supernatural abilities by his Haida community. Da.a xiigang, whose English name is Charles Edenshaw (b. 1839-1920) was a Haida Master Carver and artist, whose vast breadth of work laid a foundation of iconic symbolism within contemporary Haida carving traditions. Da.a xiigang’...
Photo: CBC.ca …she was this conglomeration of all these different women in my life, you know, aunts, and my mom and my own Grandmother, just women in my life that I witnessed growing up surrounded by a lot of alcoholism. So I just pulled all these different sources and put them into Gail Stoney. JD: Wha...
Photo: Dawn Avery Performs at Spirit Moon Well Living House 2014 The more I learn the language, the more it changes me. The whole vibration of the sounds, and also the worldview embedded in the language is so profound, that even just learning one word and using it in your life, really can change you… .....
