#mohkinstsis

[piizunn]

let's meet at the confluence (2024)

The New Gallery's Billboard 208

January 27th - June 30th, 2024

let’s meet at the confluence is a suggestion to all Calgarians to consider the site where the Elbow flows into the Bow river and question how settler-colonial history is privileged in public and site specific art. The piece references the different histories of gathering at the confluence of the waters, histories that long predate Calgary, Alberta. Despite histories of Indigenous uses of the land, queer cruising, sex work, trade, the arrival of the railway, and the North West Mounted Police, the site of the confluence is often overlooked and rarely used as the great meeting place that it once was. The simple map and text invites an audience of all backgrounds, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, to make their way from the The New Gallery along the Bow river to the confluence viewpoint and to consider their proximity to one another. The text is in English and the word confluence is repeated in multiple languages including Blackfoot, Cantonese, and Cree to honour the artist’s Michif roots and the specific location of the billboard on Treaty 7 and in Chinatown, pointing to the history of many different people living along the rivers.

[akaynehkasimi]

ᛉ~~~~~~🌸~~~~~~~~~ᛉ Piinamatskoh'sit Ayiikaakiimaat Iikskoonakaataasoap Iikaksistoowaasoap ᛉ~~~~~~~🌸~~~~~~~~~~ᛉ

[homesick-mountain-beast]

#drawthisinyourstyle Somebody come get your goth g.f. she's in my dreams 😘 - - - Seriously I had a dream and this cool punk angel type girl was there... can I trust her? Anyways, draw this in your style if you want! I had fun you might too. (at Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7 Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn8V_x6Lb61/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kiwewinbeads]

We're spending the day at the mohkinstsis camp! If you're in yyc come down and see us!

[violetsandshrikes]

Help maintain financial stability for an Indigiqueer water & land defender in Mohkinstsis. 

Food for themselves, food for their cat Marley, to maintain a safe living situation, general support of maintaining their wellness & improving their quality of life, and potentially accommodating dental health costs & costs for HRT if enough is raised! 

$2,139 raised of $5,000 goal as of 22/10/2020

[piizunn]

i live in mohkinstsis in so-called and i had the pleasure of touring fort calgary archives for a class and they showed us a naturally mummified rat named hudson they found in a historical house in so-called-calgary. it’s significant for a few reasons; the first being that rats have been banned since 1950 and the second being that natural mummification incredibly rare here given our climate!

is it fucking weird to anyone else to think that deer are like, everywhere

[bluepointcoin]

Photo exhibit showcases two-spirit and Indigiqueer people

Photo exhibit showcases two-spirit and Indigiqueer people

A new photo exhibit at The Grand in downtown Calgary showcases the resurgence of a group that long existed on the margins of society, according to organizers. The exhibit, 50 Shades of Brown: a celebration of Two-Spirit visibility, intends to honour and uplift with the faces of two-spirit and Indigiqueer people.  It was created by Mohkinstsis actor, performer and educator Marshall Vielle as part…

[paulbrain]

Paint Brains 🎨🖌️🧠🌀 (at Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7 Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChIAeLqLgTr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[piizunn]

1/15/24

i saw a mikisô pîsim (bald eagle) in downtown mohkinstsis today

[da-lyrical-pitbull]

In Eco We Trust Elated Flattered Grateful Honoured to have been included in speaking for our Mother Earth, our environment, Turtle Island and Mohkinstsis. Thank You, Albert Ecotrust, Audrey Lane Cockett & Thank You, Vicki Stroich. ~W🎤⬇️ #wakefieldbrewster #poetlaureateyyc #dalyricalpitbull #dawordwizard #page2stageproductions #poet #spokenwordartist #professionalpoeticinterperter #slampoet #slamchamp #literacyenhancer #speakercoach #poetrycoach #wordsandwellness #earisforartists #artscommons #tdincubator #teacher #theatre #acting #mentor #leadership #poetlaureate #yycarts #artistsofyyc #albertaecotrust (at Calgary, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcYmF1Xv8fa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jenniferirelandsplace]

🪨 now showing at the Sunshine Coast Arts Council 🪨 link in bio 🪨 This is a video still from the video I made for my current exhibition at the Sunshine Coast Arts Council. I spent a beautiful week earlier this month in Sechelt installing this collaborative exhibition titled Matters of Scale, with my colleague and friend @jennifer.brant at the @sunshinecoastarts gallery. For this group of works I focused on human relationships with rock and stone while working to trouble and unpack my own colonial-working-towards-de-colonial relationships with land and in particular for this exhibition; stone. In a strategy of relationship nurturing, I gathered stones from the sides of highways between the west coast and the prairies as I moved through this land so often to see and share time with kin. With these stones I made: large stone rubbings on silk in Revelstoke BC a sound scape with the stones rubbing together - massive thanks to @chadvangaalen for his support with recording and sound engineering stone impression drawings on recycled paper with clay, natural pigments and graphite stone portraits of the gathered stones painted directly on the walls of the gallery with clay and natural pigments stone sculptures with the gathered stones, bee's wax and natural pigments a series of drawings of the Burgess Shale critters- drawn to scale with clay, compost and graphite lastly this 5 minute video with an erratic from here in Treaty 7 land, Mohkinstsis Thank you for reading this 💛 #stones #rocks #canadian rockies #erraticlove #anthropoceneart #contemporaryart #conceptualart #collaborationart  #ecofeminist #ecofeministart #climateart #rockfrictionlove #rockart (at Sunshine Coast Arts Council) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVtOubqhnfS/?utm_medium=tumblr

[homesick-mountain-beast]

All hail #thefaceking_kingoffaces - - - Ok, no this isn't actually The Face King. As if I'd face reveal that in book 1 lololol 👁👄👁 This is just a guy whose ego is big enough for the Face King to work through. Catch the comic online in NINE MONTHS!! This project possible thanks to @canada.council (at Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7 Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnP1_tJyrsc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[newmuslimcirclecalgary]

A Statement Tamer Abu Hassira v Alex Hudson

A Statement Tamer Abu Hassira v Alex Hudson

Greetings of peace,  As we live, work and play on the land of the Blackfoot Confederacy in Mohkinstsis (Calgary, AB) and Treaty 3 Metis the sad and painful actions of a few who express rage and words of bigotry were hurtled towards our brother Tamer Abu Hassira on May 26, 2021 by one Alex J. Hudson.  We as New Muslim Circle Calgary condemn the obvious menacing and malicious attack on Mr. Abu…

[creativinn]

Colonialism, land and reconciliation between immigrants and Indigenous peoples explored in art exhibition - AlbertaPrimeTimes.com

Source: CJWE

A new art installation exploring colonialism around Calgary is the result of three years of relationship building between artist Jin-me Yoon and Tsuut’ina and Mohkinstsis (Calgary) based artists.

According to Yoon, the upcoming fall exhibit of her installation Untunnelling Vision is about the relationship between land and people, and the histories that both hold.

“I think we have our own reconciliation to do as immigrants because we often come to Canada with these big histories, and so there's different points of connection to make,” said Yoon.

The installation is made up of video, photographs, photo-sculptural elements, and objects. It features a number of Treaty 7 locations, including the southwest ring road construction site and a film set on Tsuut’ina Nation erected for the 2008 Canadian film Passchendaele about the First World War battle.

The installation was informed by themes of war and colonialism from Yoon’s Korean ancestry, and her experience as an immigrant in Canada.

“My work is never about Indigenous peoples in a direct sense, so when people say ‘You always talk about colonialism, but there's no Indigenous people in your work.’ I say, ‘But I'm colonialism. The way I understand land is colonial’,” said Yoon.

Unlike other installations where Yoon would ask long-time family or friends to work with her, Untunnelling Vision included the experiences of young artists that Yoon previously did not know.

One of those new faces was seth cardinal dodginghorse, a Tsuut’ina Nation member and multimedia artist who had a personal connection to some of the locations featured in the exhibit.

He became involved in the project with Yoon three years ago after responding to a call out for Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) artists.

“In my own artistic practice a lot of the focus of my work has been talking about the history of this land and how, even recently, it was affected by colonialism,” said cardinal dodginghorse.

He and his family were forcibly moved off of their land six years ago for the construction of the ring road, which he said has made his art more politically charged.

“Knowing the history of areas and home, and place, and land, is pretty important. So it was nice working with Jin-me where that was an important thing to practice,” said cardinal dodginghorse.

Both Yoon and cardinal dodginghorse said respecting boundaries, and the need for Yoon to not speak over Indigenous experiences was a necessary aspect of their working together.

“The really beautiful young people and also the cardinal dodginghourse family, who are Tsuut'ina, have generously allowed me to make this work. And it doesn't try to tell their story of their land. It's me witnessing and being alongside and telling you from my perspective,” said Yoon.

During the production of Untunnelling Vision, cardinal dodginghorse and Hanum Yoon-Henderson, Yoon’s son, led a workshop of the other young artists to improvise acoustic sounds, using left-over items from the Passchendaele film site.

According to cardinal dodginghorse, the land, which had been leased for almost 100 years by the Canadian Armed Forces for training, which included launching rockets, grenades, and other munitions, many of which were left unexploded, has not been maintained.

“It looks very much like a ‘90’s apocalyptic movie,” said cardinal dodginghorse.

The acoustic experiments, which later became part of the improvised score for the exhibit’s video, were conducted in a tunnel built for the ring road, which features prominently in the exhibit.

According to cardinal dodginghorse, building the tunnel resulted in the loss of the natural landscape, with trees being knocked down and natural springs drying up.

He says the tunnel is a personal and symbolic reminder of colonialism disguised as development.

“Now, the Tsuut'ina people are kind of hidden and tucked away under the ring road. So as people are driving to get to work and commute, people from the nation would be driving underneath in this tunnel, underneath the ring road,” said cardinal dodginghorse.

For these reasons, he hopes that audience members to the fall exhibit will include people from Tsuut’ina, residents of Calgary, with different viewpoints and values than what would make up the average liberal arts audience.

“I think it'd be nice to see the average Albertan or the average Calgarian at those things [the exhibit locations], and see things that challenge them a bit more,” said cardinal dodginghorse.

The exhibition is presented by M:ST Performative Art and TRUCK Contemporary Art and runs from Oct. 1 to Dec. 12 at TRUCK Contemporary Art (2009 10 Avenue SW, Mohkinstsis|Calgary). For more information, visit www.truck.ca

This content was originally published here.

[ericfruits]

On Canadian maps, indigenous names are replacing European ones

JEFFERY AMHERST, who commanded British troops in North America during the Seven Years War in the mid-18th century, described indigenous people who fought for France as an “execrable race”. He called for their “total extirpation” and suggested using dogs to hunt them down.

Yet Amherst (pictured) was commemorated in Canada (and in the United States) mainly for establishing British supremacy in North America. Schools, towns and streets bear his name. That has started to change in both countries. Amherst College in Massachusetts no longer celebrates Lord Jeff as its mascot (but is keeping its name). Canadians are scrubbing the names of Amherst and of other colonial-era heroes off street signs, school buildings and maps, often replacing them with names drawn from indigenous history. Montreal, the largest city in French-speaking Quebec, plans to erase a “stain on our history” by renaming Amherst Street, a 1.5km (0.9 mile) thoroughfare, which was given its name by British conquerors 200 years ago. The city is looking for an indigenous substitute.

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About 30,000 of Canada’s 350,000 place names have indigenous origins, including that of the country itself. Canada comes from the Iroquoian word for “village”. As indigenous groups grow more assertive, and politicians become more supportive of them, maps are being rewritten. Justin Trudeau, Canada’s Liberal prime minister, has promised to implement the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, which acknowledges their right to keep indigenous names for communities and places. More than 600 indigenous place names were added to the national registry in 2017, compared with 358 five years earlier. In come cases, they are supplanting European-origin names.

Name-swapping is not easy. Local governments, which normally make such decisions, must consult residents, who often disagree with one another. Provinces also have a say. When Ottawa, named after the Odawa indigenous group, merged with surrounding municipalities in 2001, it found itself with 80 streets that shared their names with at least one other. Canada’s capital saw that as a chance to give more recognition to the region’s indigenous peoples. Some residents resisted. As a result, it took the city until last November to settle on Onigam Street, whose name was drawn from the Algonquin word for “portage”, as the replacement for one of its River Streets. The job is still not done.

A decision may not end a dispute. A city councillor in Edmonton, Alberta’s capital, objected that Maskekosihk (“people of the land of medicine”) Trail is harder to pronounce than 23rd Avenue, its former name. Cree groups retorted that they have coped with tongue twisters ever since Europeans arrived. (Canada’s longest one-word place name, Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik, or “the lake where wild trout are caught by fishing with hooks”, in Manitoba, is a Cree confection.) The Northwest Territories nearly changed its own name to a much shorter one after part of it separated to form Nunavut in 1999. The government sought suggestions on a website for a new name; “Bob” came second.

The Stoney Nakoda want to rename Calgary, the largest city in Alberta, Wichispa Oyade, which means “elbow town”. The Blackfoot prefer Mohkinstsis-aka-piyosis, which means “many houses on the Elbow river”. The province has shown no interest in calling Calgary, named after Scotland’s Calgary Bay, anything else. The Northwest Territories dealt with competing names for the Mackenzie river by accepting all of them in 2015. It can now be called the Dehcho, the Deho, the Kuukpak, the Nagwichoonjik or the Grande Rivière, all of which mean “great river”.

Mr Trudeau dropped the name of Hector-Louis Langevin, a founder of residential schools, which sought to sever indigenous children’s links to their families and cultures, from the building that houses his office. That suggests the renaming trend is unlikely to abate. Indigenous groups want the Cornwallis river in Nova Scotia, named for a colonial governor who offered a bounty for the scalps of Mi’kmaq people, to be called something else.

Montreal’s city council is debating who should replace Amherst. One possibility is Pontiac, an Odawa leader who rebelled against Amherst’s rule. That dig at the British might please indigenous folk and French speakers alike.

This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline "Shaming and renaming"

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[paulbrain]

Smoking in #virtually #spirituality over ☯️ #dimension with a #private #recipe from Uncle @Snoopdogg 🤩💥☯️ #Trinity × #OG Kush ☢️🎩🪄🔱🌋⚜️🍄🧠🧬⚗️🪬📿⚱️⚰️⚔️💠🗝️⛩️🗿🗽🪦📜💣♐㊙️🔞 #snoopdogg #artist #tao #道 #exploration #disabilityart #fineart #contemporaryart (at Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7 Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce1eVcyptC4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=