Arthur Shilling (1941-1986)

Born on the Rama Reserve, near Orillia, Ontario into an Ojibwa family of thirteen children, Shilling started drawing as a small child and later carved wooden totem poles. Using oil on canvas, he depicted life on the Rama Reserve, where, eventually he built an art gallery to encourage local talent

His life is documented in the film The Beauty of My People (1978).

#arthurshilling #art #artist #canadianartist #ojibwa #ojibwaart #nativeamericanart #nativeamericanarist #portraitart #oil #huile #öl #oleo #oilpainting #thebeautyofmypeople

Arthur Shilling (1941-1986)

Born on the Rama Reserve, near Orillia, Ontario into an Ojibwa family of thirteen children, Shilling started drawing as a small child and later carved wooden totem poles. Using oil on canvas, he depicted life on the Rama Reserve, where, eventually he built an art gallery to encourage local talent

His life is documented in the film The Beauty of My People (1978).

#arthurshilling #art #artist #canadianartist #ojibwa #ojibwaart #nativeamericanart #nativeamericanarist #portraitart #oil #huile #öl #oleo #oilpainting #thebeautyofmypeople

#BlackEyedSusan on parade.
We grow a lot of them! Mostly in pots so we can control them better.

It's the #StateFlower of #Maryland.

The #Ojibwa #Indigenous peoples used it as a #poultice for snake bites & to make an infusion for treating colds and worms in children.

#RudbeckiaHirta #bloomscrolling #florespondence #PollinatorGarden #WhatsInMyGarden #Saanich #Gardeners #GardeningMastodon #Zone8 #YYJ #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #Flowers #PlantFlowers #plants #nature #PNW #botanical #PlantLovers #Wsanec #perennials #SimpleJoys #DisabledGardeners #DisabledPhotographers #photography #YYJphotographers #FlowersIdentification #PlantIdentification #YellowFlowers #LearnAboutPlants

A 27-hour #rail journey will take a team of #Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers to Lac Seul First Nation to engage with Knowledge Keepers on the worldview called Ahnishinahbayeshshikaywin (pronounced Ah-nish-in-ah-bay-esh-shi-kay-win). This 'encompasses practices that establish a relationship between places and people; these reflect a belief in souls, spirits, and the existence of human souls through eternity. Since mountains, rivers, land, plants, and trees are animate, all of these have souls.'

The train ride is more than just a physical journey. It will carry the team into landscape that is far from 'pristine' but has been inhabited for millennia.

#animism #landscape #empire #Ojibwa #Anishinaabeg #anthropology #Oji-Cree

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/on-the-tracks-to-translating-indigenous-knowledge/

Lacrosse is a colonial version of a Native American game of different names (depending on the tribe). The French condemned it as too violent and too embedded in the indigenous religions they sought to eradicate.

Fun fact: the Ojibwas once staged a match, invited British troops, then secretly invaded their fort at their backs.

More on its history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lacrosse

#Indigenous #NativeAmerican #Lacrosse #Colonization #History #Onondaga #Ojibwa