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🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 Kina Abinodjishik Apiitendagiziok Every Child Matters September 30 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Spent the day with my parents. Our family exists today because they survived. We remember kina abinodjiishik every day. 🧡 It has been a heavy few days. A little about our Truth.. Abinodjishik from home were taken to three different schools: Amos St-Marc Figuery, Kenora and Spanish. Pictured here is one group that was forcibly removed from their families to be abused, punished, tortured at these so called schools. They were given a towel and assigned a number. Truth is they were concentration camps. I mourn their stolen time. I mourn what could have been. I mourn the language they weren’t allowed to speak. I mourn their connection to culture & family. Listening to Survivor’s stories is traumatic. But listen anyway so that it never happens again.. The residential school and boarding school systems were an act of genocide that targeted Indigenous children. We remember every child and every generation affected by these ugly systems including the 60s scoop and child welfare. Praying for our People. May we continue to heal from these systems because our existence is our resistance. Learn the truth Understand the truth Talk about the truth of what residential schools were as well as what continues to happen

Living Stories Exhibit Opening January 27th Brought Shemaginish to it’s new home for 2025 at the @gichigamiinmuseum in Evanston, IL🤍✨ Looking forward to seeing the other works that will be a part of the exhibit. Our People make beautiful heartwork. Love. Bwe sa minwashin kina kegon. If you are in Chicago, go visit the exhibit. 🤍

Miigwetc @firstamart for the Artist spotlight. N’miigwetcendim. Grateful for the opportunity to share with the FAAM audience. Wiigwas is culture. Miigwetc to my family for everything. Growing up I never thought I would ever be featured in a magazine. Surreal to see myself in this issue. Models: @kawaii_fern & @kirenhoover (page 88) Kyren Cole (Page 90) 📸: @urban_image_az Heard Indian Market. Summer 2024 collection 📸: @babesthompson Pibon Collection

Florals & Berries What’s available: Top Right, middle left and bottom left

Tciiyegashiish Dragonfly Etched & quilled wiigwas medallion backed with tanned deer hide. 👉🏽 Available

Picking Berries 🤍 Miinadjiishkeh 🤍

April showers bring May flowers

A lil BTS from our White Sands photoshoot. I could replay this over and over. What’s next for Shemaginish? Viceo 🎥 & beautiful singing by @kimmaye_xo

If you happen to be in the area, stop by. I will be there for my first of two art shows for 2026. 🤍 Ohi:yo Art Market

Kwey / Hello. Praying for peaceful days ahead as I (slowly) get back to being creative. Art is my therapy. N’minendim to receive some positive news today. I’ve been accepted for #swaia 2026. Ema minwatc gahbinen. Pijak. Nagaznin. Looking forward to August. Come visit the booth. Ahhh NM in August. See yas there.

Zagidiwin. Mii Odii-e LOVE. THIS THE WAY! Mino Zagidiwin Kejagin HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY Nendakon kidji minendimiin - You deserve lo be happy Nakidawenmidzin Take care of yourself Sagiidzin Love yourself (Self love) Minendin Be happy Kidinewinan - Our Language #ThisIsTheWay #Shemaginish #Mandalorian #Indiginerd

🌿🌿 A wiigwas work in progress.. i started working on this back in 2024, picked it up a bit in 2025… I’ll finish it this year. Heartwork 🤍 Guitar played by nephew. 🤍 #Anishnabe #Quillwork #Heartwork #Indigenous