Jo-Ina Young, Métis knowledge-keeper, is a force of nature
Left and top right photos by Christine Henry Arts. Bottom left photo provided of Jo-Ina’s horse, Wee Briar.
I met Jo-Ina in a ribbon-skirt making workshop. The last time I had been around a sewing machine was in grade seven and I was so stressed that I broke out in my first case of hives. Jo-Ina took charge of my nerves. I don’t even know how she did it. All I know is that I was sewing ribbons on my skirt in no time.
Jo-Ina was a whirlwind as she twirled from table to table in the gym of the Victoria Native Friendship Centre, assisting a handful of ribbon-skirt-making newbies. She sewed a fringe on the bottom of my skirt and made it look beautiful for the 2018 Victoria Day Parade. Every time the parade paused we danced a Métis jig. A pick-up truck carried fiddlers and other music-makers in its box in front of us.
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