Nahkawewin Saulteaux (Ojibway Dialect of the Plains), and three months ago
Anihšinapemowin Beginning Saulteaux, a book she co-authored, was finally released. In total, she published about 20 Saulteaux language and culture books while being a full time Saulteaux language and Saulteaux history professor.
News of Margaret Cote s passing was shared on social media on Wednesday. She was 70.(Margaret Cote/Facebook)
According to her bio on the Strong Nations Publishing website, Cote was the first person in Saskatchewan to teach a First Nations language in a public school. So, with her passing, we ve lost one valuable speaker of the language, said Ratt.
Radical diversity : Hampton makes history at MacKenzie Art Gallery John Hampton is “feeling the weight of responsibility” as the first Indigenous director of a major non-Indigenous art institution in Canada.
Author of the article: Ashley Martin
Publishing date: Feb 11, 2021 • February 11, 2021 • 6 minute read • John Hampton, the executive director/CEO of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, sits in his office in the gallery in Regina on Jan. 9, 2021. Behind him is a piece by Bob Boyer titled Sitting In the Lodge with Eber. Photo by BRANDON HARDER /Regina Leader-Post
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Canada s Gerald McMaster Zooms into town for Wheelwright talk Ontario-based educator, curator and former artist Gerald McMaster (Plains Cree) looks back on his time at Santa Fe s Institute of American Indian Arts in the 1970s as a good thing even though, he says, his classes didn t really delve into Indigenous art history the way he d have liked. That s partly why he founded his own curriculum through what was then known as the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College (today it s called First Nations University of Canada, and it still teaches McMaster s stuff). Around that time, he gave up his own practice to focus on the scholarly aspects of the arts, but the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian s Chief Curator Andrea Hanley still snagged a McMaster painting for