My latest drawing : Mooz

My latest drawing from the Indigenous Art History workshop ….

mooz : a moose

Source: https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/mooz-na

Gii-wen (Ojibwe for “so the story is told”), moose once vanished from the land. According to Ojibwe legend, an owl flew north and chanced upon the herd grazing on balsam fir trees. The moose were thriving, without humans. The Ojibwe, on the other hand, couldn't live without the moose.

Whither go the moose, so go the Ojibwe, says Norman Deschampe, chairman of the Minnesota Tribe of Lake Superior Chippewa/Ojibwe, Grand Portage Band. “Moose are at the center of our culture. Without them, we will cease to be Ojibwe. We've hunted moose since chemaywe'ya, the way-back time, for subsistence. One moose can feed a family for several seasons.”

Source: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/59/10/824/237324?login=false

I am a Métis youth taking a course on Indigenous Art and History in Canada. I will share my work here along with some of the thoughts and ideas I have while creating these works. I will also share some of the Ojibwe and Algonquin language we are learning.

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