Retreating to Re-Treat A Performative Encounter at the "Edge of the Woods" Treaties Contributors to Bead by Bead

Contributors to Bead by Bead address the historical denial – at both federal and provincial levels – of outstanding Métis concerns and Aboriginal rights claims

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The Friendship Wampum: Maintaining Traditional Practices in Our Contemporary Interactions in the Valley of the Kiji Sibi

Retreating to Re-Treat A Performative Encounter at the "Edge of the Woods" Treaties Contributors to Bead by BeadIn 2019, a group of scholar artists led by Jill Carter stood with their audience in a liminal space at the edge of the woodsa space between now and then, a space between now and later. Together, they engaged in a survivance intervention: an Indigenous reclamation of territory, using Storyweaving practices rooted in personal connections to the land as a method of restor(y)ing treaty relationships. Retreating to Re Treat documents both their artistic