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Climate Change, Critical Minerals and First Nations, as well as Indigenous Women in 2022. Our friends from Montreal were able to meet our team and hear our vision. Lee Arden Lewis and Anne Chabot, Indigenous advisors to First Nations, gave a presentation, as did the artist Kirk Brant, who created this unique original artwork to express a collective vision: Voices at the Table.
In creating this piece for Voices Around the Table, I paid close attention to what is most important when approaching the earth as a sustainable resource.
For Indigenous peoples, the earth is our mother; it nourishes every part of our physical and spiritual lives. When we approach the land for harvesting, we must do so in the most respectful way possible to maintain the balance between taking and giving, a balance that has been with us since we first lived on our Mother Earth.
When we speak of the earth, we recognize not only the earth itself, but also the water, the sky, and all the creatures that inhabit every corner of our Earth.
In this painting, it was important to illustrate our relationship with the sky above the earth and water. As with any extraction process, considerations must be taken to preserve the health of all these environments.
Traditional knowledge has always been passed down by our elders. Women have always been our privileged link to the Earth itself. As givers of life, they symbolize the relationship we have with the Earth, which is our mother.
We see two elders discussing the importance of our relationship with the earth, the sky, and the water.
The Moon is depicted as a grandmother to the Earth and to all of us, a symbol of the relationship to life that extends beyond the Earth and into the celestial world from which the first peoples came.
Above the water, we see this symbolically represented by a dome with a celestial tree extending into the cosmos. A traditional Haudenosaunee worldview.
I see this painting as a conversation about our relationship with our Mother Earth, acknowledging the traditional wisdom we learn from our keepers of knowledge and our elders.
