Description:
This textured collection of essays by Indigenous contributors from across Turtle Island and beyond illuminates stories, dialogues and curations invoked through the idea of home-lands, waters and relations.
Brief description:
Dr. Tasha Beeds is a Black-Indigenous scholar of nêhiyaw, Scottish-Metis and mixed Bajan ancestry from the Treaty 6 Territories of Saskatchewan. She moves through the world in the layered fullness of these lineages, living her work through many intertwined roles: mother, kôhkom, Aunty, creative artist, poet, Water Walker and Midewiwin woman from Minweyweywigaan Lodge, grounded in Roseau River First Nation and Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory. Internationally recognized for her research and Water protection work, she has been supported by the Bibliographic Society of America, NdN Collective, and Na'ah Illahee, and has held roles with the University of Saskatchewan, University of Windsor, Carleton University, Queen's University and Kenjgewin Teg. Carrying Water Walk teachings from the late Josephine Mandamin-Ba, the late Shirley Ida Eliza Williams-Ba, and Liz Osawamick, she has Walked for the Water in for sixteen years. Her work honours Indigenous brilliance and sovereignty, carrying Ancestral teachings forward for future generations.