In this video Cheryl L’Hirondelle shares a story that was told to her by Joseph Naytowhow. As our special guest for Family Sunday, in October 2022, Cheryl shared these teachings of the buffalo hide, the four directions, and more, in relation to her piece “ē-kwēkimot: s/he/they transform” installed in the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2021 exhibition, presented by the AGGV in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts.

Cheryl L’Hirondelle describes herself as Cree/Halfbreed; German/Polish, and is an award-winning and community-engaged interdisciplinary artist, singer/songwriter and critical thinker whose family is from Papaschase First Nation / amiskwaciy wâskahikan (Edmonton) and Kikino Metis Settlement, Alberta. Her work investigates the intersections of nêhiyawin (Cree worldview) and contemporary time-place incorporating sound, Indigenous languages, music, and old and new technology. Her current projects include: Why the Caged Bird Sings, a collaborative songwriting project with incarcerated women, men and detained youth; nîpawiwin ohci, a series of immersive media-rich installations created to evoke embodied concepts towards solidarity; and Singing Land– a multi-iterative international songwriting/sonic mapping project as a process towards personal treaty-making.

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Videography and editing by Marina DiMaio.In this video Cheryl L’Hirondelle shares a story that was told to her by Joseph Naytowhow. As our special guest for Family Sunday, in October 2022, Cheryl shared these teachings of the buffalo hide, the four directions, and more, in relation to her piece “ē-kwēkimot: s/he/they transform” installed in the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media A …