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Nov 7, 2024 | muskratmagazine.com | Racine Bebamikawe

All Photos courtesy of Figure 1 PublishingCanada’s largest ocean watershed begins in the Hudson Bay region. Its pulsing waterways are like veins stretching across Ontario and beyond, intersecting and gathering strength as they flow through dense forests and wetlands. The water moves through populated urban centres to the serene countryside, spanning from Alberta to Quebec and up into the Northwest Territories.

Oct 4, 2024 | muskratmagazine.com | Racine Bebamikawe

On a sweltering 40-degree summer day, Chuna McIntyre, a Yup’ik storyteller and dancer, is dressed in full regalia and performs a traditional song and dance inside the Louvre Museum, accompanied by the rhythmic beat of his hand drum. He is honouring a Yup’ik mask with his dance, offering a traditional greeting to the mask that once belonged to his family’s village in southwest Alaska and is now on display at the museum.

Sep 30, 2024 | muskratmagazine.com | Racine Bebamikawe

Feature Image: Chief Willie Sellars digs a grave for community member Stan Wycotte who took his life on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. (Credit: Emily Kassie/Sugarcane Film LLC)Spanish is a small town on the north shore of Lake Huron, approximately 120 kilometres west of Sudbury, Ont. It holds historical significance as the site of St. Peter Claver Residential School for boys and St. Joseph’s (St. Anne’s) Residential School for girls.

Sep 20, 2024 | muskratmagazine.com | Racine Bebamikawe

Feature Image: Tsakë ze’ Howilhkat Freda Huson stands in ceremony while police arrive to enforce Coastal GasLink’s injunction at Unist’ot’en Healing Centre. (Photo Credit: © Amber Bracken)The serene beauty of a snow-covered evergreen landscape and the dark, flowing waters of Wedzin Kwa, the Morice River in southwestern British Columbia, is shattered by the threatening roar of a helicopter and bulldozers. Against this backdrop, red dresses hang on a bridge.

Sep 10, 2024 | muskratmagazine.com | Shannon Webb-Campbell |Racine Bebamikawe |Tiffany Morris

Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘the space in which to place me’ This year’s 60th annual Venice Art Biennale marked the first-ever solo exhibition of an Indigenous artist from Turtle Island. Jeffrey Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, transformed the American pavilion with his unabashed array of colours. Curated by Kat...