by Merit Kawennihe's Mother
Jeanne Morningstar Kent
Moccasin "Vamps"
by Jeanne Morningstar Kent, Krista Laboucane and Barbara Robidoux
Karlie King
Moccasin "Vamps"
I intentionally hooked these vamps with clothes that have provided me comfort: a maternity top, a nightgown, a favourite shirt. I wish to share this comfort with my Sisters. by Karlie King
Jaime Koebel
Moccasin "Vamps"
My first set of completed vamps for this project. I couldn't help but think about how ineffective national political organizations have been in trying to get some movement on raising awareness and bringing justice to the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada. An example is the support for a national inquiry that the AFN tried to establish during their recent meeting with the provinces. What we are doing with this project is real. It feels to me like a movement from the grassroots to really being awareness to other people like us who may not know about the craziness of this situation. Craziness as in - why it's anything being done in any real manner? I hope that when this gets exhibited general society will be gifted with an important message of urgency and suspicion as to why more sit being done. We are our own leadership. by Jaime Koebel
Tania Larsson
Moccasin "Vamps"
For all the beautiful and blossoming women who did not have the chance to bloom fully, I carry you in my heart and thoughts, no one will be forgotten. by Tania Larsson
Silver Lynx
Moccasin "Vamps"
My vamps include flowers made with larger pink quarts beads and glass beads strung on fox fur rosettes, stitched onto moose hide. Rose quartz is said to bring gentleness, forgiveness, compassion, kindness and tolerance. In healing, it is often used by those who are in the process of grieving and is credited for bringing peace and calm. Fox medicine is a powerful gift. The fox is a survivor, adaptable and a superb family protector. by Silver Lynx
Rachel Limon
Moccasin "Vamps"
Theses vamps are titled "Forget Me Knot" as I have beaded the Forget Me Knot flower. The dragonflies represent rebirth after one has transformed on their spirit journey and the 6 sparkles are to honor the lives of the 600+ missing or murdered Indigenous Women. by Rachel Limon
Maria Fawn Livingston
Moccasin "Vamps"
"Four Generations" representing four generations of women in my family; the top flower represents my kohkum who is one of the many stolen sisters, then my mother, then my four sisters and I, then my sisters' daughters. medium is fish scales. by Maria Fawn Livingston