Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun: Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities | 
Breakfast reading with Cooper. He‘s my little shadow, this guy. The other dogs sometimes wander off to do their own things, but Coopy‘s never very far away. I think he especially likes reading time because it‘s prime snuggle time.
“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality … One can‘t possess reality, one can possess images—one can‘t possess the present but one can possess the past.” —Susan Sontag, On Photography
pickA beautiful and informative collection of archival photos curated by #Indigenous journalist and cultural advocate Paul Seesequasis. These images document early- to mid-20th century life in 8 communities in northern #Canada. The photos were taken by nonIndigenous and Indigenous photographers. Seesequasis provides context, and examines the ways their personal backgrounds and reasons for taking pictures shape the content of their images.
Concurrent reading of three books that focus on slightly different aspects of the same subject—Indigenous peoples in northern Canada—has been a rich and memorable experience.
This photo was taken in 1969 and brings back memories. Ruth Kakfwi, the girl in this photo, has a scarf identical to one that I remember wearing when I was a kid. We actually had two of them but my sisters and I would fight over who got to wear them in the early 1970s.
Indigenous Plains people worked hard & adapted to an agricultural way of life, many becoming so successful that incoming white settlers complained that they were competing unfairly against them. In response to these complaints, the govt initiated further measures to curtail Indigenous farmers from selling their crops or purchasing farm equipment. For decades many farmers could not use any metal in their farm tools & had to make wooden implements.
The Wolf Willow dig at Wanuskewin [in Saskatchewan] has found artifacts that date back about 5,000 years, including a 500-year-old highly polished elk tooth that was part of a beautiful amulet.
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pickI adore this book! It's so beautiful and heartwarming, as well as informative.
I did some more Christmas shopping! Two are for me and four are gifts 😊
