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Resistance

  • Algonquin - Barriere Lake
    Barriere Lake Algonquins are resisting the supplantation of their customary governing system, on their unceded territory, by Indian Act band elections imposed by Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl.
  • Anishnaabe - Asubpeeschoseewagong
    Anishnabe of Grassy Narrows First Nation in northeastern Ontario battle clearcut logging and the effects of colonial and industrial invasion of their homeland.
  • Beaver Lake Cree - northeastern Alberta
    "The Beaver Lake Cree, a small, impoverished band of 900 people in eastern Alberta, are suing the Canadian federal and Alberta provincial governments to protect the land. The tar sands are obliterating their traditional hunting and fishing lands in Alberta. The animals, fish, plants and medicine that sustain the Beaver Lake Cree are being destroyed."
  • Coastal First Nations - B.C.
    An alliance of British Columbian First Nations oppose the Enbridge Pipeline and excessive resource extraction in their traditional territories.
  • Gwich'in - Arctic National Wildlife Range
    "The Gwich’in people stand united in our continued efforts to protect the (caribou birthing grounds) from oil and gas development."
  • Gwich'in - Peel River
    "Mining interests are lobbying hard to open up the Peel River watershed to roads and industrial development. The Peel Watershed Planning Commission recommends protecting 80% of this wilderness. Affected First Nations are calling for protection of the entire watershed."
  • Lubicon Lake Cree - Little Buffalo
    The Lubicon Cree Nation is fighting the invasion of their unceded territory by colonial governments and resource extraction companies.
  • St'at'imc - Sutikalh
    The Sutikalh Camp is dedicated to the preservation of the pristine area of the Melvin Creek Valley, also known as Sutikalh or Winter Spirit. Members of the St'at'imc Nation established this permanent camp in 2000 to protest the proposed development of a 500 million dollar ski resort by Nancy Greene Raine and her husband Al Raine (NGR) in the Cayoosh Mountain Range.
  • Tsilhqot'in - Teztan Biny
    "Taseko Mines Ltd. is proposing to develop the Prosperity Mine, a massive open pit gold and copper mine, deep within the traditional territory of the Tsilhqot'in Nation. The proposed mine's two kilometer-wide open pit, tailings pond, waste rock piles, roads, and transmission lines would destroy an entire sub-alpine ecosystem, and most importantly Teztan Biny, a lake sacred to the Tsilhqot'in Nation, and known to others as Fish Lake."
  • Yup'ik - Bristol Bay, Alaska
    Native and non-native Alaskans oppose the proposed Pebble gold and copper mine in the headwaters of one of the most productive salmon spawning areas in North America.

Archives

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
1989 - 1993. Alberta College of Art, Diploma, Painting Major.
Exhibitions:
Jun 21 - Jul 30, 2011. NORTH, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
Jun 01 - Jul 30, 2011. ASSAIL, FIGHT, PROTEST, SLAM, The New Gallery +15 Window Space, Calgary, Alberta.
Jan 29 - April 13, 2011. NARRATIVE QUEST, Red Deer Museum & Art Gallery, Red Deer, Alberta.
Sep 2009. NARRATIVE QUEST, Capital Arts Bldg, Edmonton, Alberta.
Feb - July 2008. HONOURING TRADITION: Reframing Native Art, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.
Jan - Mar 2005. COLLECTIONS - FIRST NATIONS - CONNECTIONS, Red Deer & District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta.
Mar 2004. VOICES OF OUR SPIRIT, Keyano Art Gallery, Fort McMurray, Alberta.
May 2002 - Jul 2004. WESTERN PANIC!, AFA Traveling Exhibition, Alberta Society of Artists.
Aug 2002 - Oct 2002. FIRST NATIONS ARTISTS OF ALBERTA, The Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta.
Nov 2001 - Jan 2002. ORAL HISTORY, Crowsnest Pass Allied Arts Association, Frank Gallery, Frank, Alberta.
Jun 2001 - Jan 2002. FIRST TWO OF TWENTY, Calgary Aboriginal Arts Awareness Society, F/N Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
Sep 2000 - May 2001. ORAL HISTORY, McDougall Centre, Calgary, Alberta.
September 1999. INDIAN WARS, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
Jun 1998. LOOKING & SEEING, Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
Jun 1998. SPIRITS OF POWER ‘98, A-Space Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
Apr 1997. SPIRITS OF POWER, A-Space Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
May - Jun 1996. EARTH WALKERS, Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, The Banff Centre Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
May - Jul 1993. SEVEN LIFETIMES: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW, Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, Alberta.
Awards & Grants:
2005 VISUAL ARTS PROJECT GRANT, Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
2002, 2000, 1998 VISUAL ARTS, CREATION/PRODUCTION GRANTS FOR EMERGING ARTISTS, Canada Council for the Arts.
Collections:
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Provincial Collection , Edmonton, Alberta.
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.
Indian Art Centre/ Department of Indian and Northern Development Art Collection, Ottawa, Ontario.
Red Deer Museum, Red Deer, Alberta.

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