Theme: The Tiny Trio

My responsibilities as a mother are core to my identity, and in my work to generate nurturing, therapeutic, decolonized and anti-colonial spaces in legal education I am driven by concern for the generations that will follow. I am not alone in this preoccupation. As Dr. Tracey Lindberg once wrote in 1997, as Indigenous folks operating in the legal academy it is our responsibility to ensure “that barriers that existed for us as Aboriginal women are knocked down so that our children do not have to break them down.”

My children are a frequent and recurring theme in my beadwork, and they are also frequent co-conspirators in beads who assist in all phases of my beadwork practice from pattern development to bead selection.

They will sometimes even lay hands on thread and assist in the physical production of pieces.

To learn more about beadwork representations of the Tiny Trio, please see The First Shawl; The Law With Heart Honour Shawl, and The 100 Years Intergenerational Collaboration.