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Artist Spotlight: Daystar Belcourt

  • sôhkitêhêwin ~ to courageously stand with (solidarity)

    sôhkitêhêwin ~ to courageously stand with ( solidarity)

    I wanted to create something that embodies our connection to the Land and Nations~

    The resistance in Palestine and Turtle Island are weaved together from the same bloody cloth.

    Food and medicine are the same, however, their gifts are placed to nourish our minds, body and spirit. Each space needs particular help.

    No matter what the colonial state tries to do, the Land will always be there to remember who we are and where we come from.

    An umbilical cord that will never be severed.

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    Kisikawacahkos

    Daystar Belcourt

    Sew-On Patches 

  • Meet the Artist

    My name is Daystar Belcourt. I'm an indigiqueer Cree Métis visual artist ~ from Treaty 6 territory in so-called edmonton, alberta. Im a self-taught artist with help and guidance from friends and community.

    Most of my inspiration comes from culture, social justice, ecology, and traditional environmental knowledge. Ive studied ecology in school and grew up with relatives who were bush people and knew the Land very well.

    Some of my work have been in galleries such as Massy Art Society and Whiskeyjack Art House. 

    See Daystar's Collection 
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Designed by Phil Gray (Ts'ymsen/Cree + Hayf Abichahine (Palestinian/Lebanese)

Firekeepers Collective Snapback Hat (3 Colours)

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Featured Collection: Born Sacred

Smokii Sumac (they/he) is a Ktunaxa two spirit poet, playwright, and Cultural youthcare worker. His first book you are enough: love poems for the end of the world (Kegedonce Press) won an Indigenous Voices Award. Upon witnessing the escalation of the genocide in Gaza in October 2023, Smokii began writing poems, which culminated in the collection Born Sacred: Poems for Palestine (Roseway).

They are donating all personal profits from the book to Palestinians in Gaza. Smokii lives in ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa with his husband, their cats, chicken, and a “big ‘ole Rez dog” named Kootenay Lou. 

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