Muskrat Magazine

MUSKRAT is a digital magazine focused on Indigenous arts and culture. It celebrates the bond between people and traditional ecological wisdom by showcasing original creations and thoughtful discussions. MUSKRAT caters to both rural and urban communities and utilizes media arts, the Internet, and wireless technology to explore and share traditional knowledge, encouraging its revival and appreciation.

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Rewriting the History of Ktaqmkuk 'Newfoundland'

2 months ago | muskratmagazine.com | Shannon Webb-Campbell

Featured Image: Partial view of Another Dream, a multi-media installation featuring Herd by Douglas Walbourne-Gough and Returning by Deantha Edmunds. Visual design and creation by Erienne Rennick. Photo credit: Jane Walker Indigenous artists and writers are leading a cultural revival and gaining momentum as a societal movement on the southwestern coast Ktaqmkuk, or what is colonially known as Newfoundland, and across the island.
Singing Back the Buffalo

Dec 17, 2024 | muskratmagazine.com | Shannon Webb-Campbell

When award winning Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard, from Peepeekisis First Nation in Treaty Four Territory was younger, she was taken to visit a buffalo ribstone outside of Regina, where she saw boulder petroglyphs that have existed for thousands of years. It was an experience that changed her life, and continues to inform her academic research and her latest documentary film, Singing Back the Buffalo.
New York BalletCollective Collaborates with Jordan Bennett on 'The Past Delivers'

Dec 3, 2024 | muskratmagazine.com | Shannon Webb-Campbell

Featured Image: Bre Johnson/BFA.com“BalletCollective offers a pathway into the art form, for both artists and audiences alike. It’s not a one-way street, however; for our artistic collaborators, the entire exercise is meant to engage them in the work of another art form, necessarily evolving their own artistic understanding in the process,” says Cara Lonergan, Executive Director of BalletCollective, a non-profit arts organization in New York City.
Nestuita'si Storytelling's Brings 'Winter Moons' to Neptune Theatre

Nov 20, 2024 | muskratmagazine.com | Shannon Webb-Campbell

Photos by Stoo Metz PhotographyMi’kmaw playwright, poet and ecologist shalan joudry’s Winter Moons stokes the embers of a contemporary dance theatrical show by honouring ancestral survival through Mi’kmaw legends and star stories at Neptune Theatre co-presented with Prismatic Arts Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia from November 12 to 24, 2024. Produced by Nestuita’si Storytelling, Winter Moons is directed by joudry and choreographed by Sarah Prosper, a world renowned Mi’kmaw dancer.
Paul Seesequasis' "People of the Watershed"

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.
Montréal’s Botanical Gardens Illuminates First Nations Garden

Oct 23, 2024 | muskratmagazine.com | Shannon Webb-Campbell

There’s something evocative about being in the forest at night. Rooted in Indigenous Teachings, the First Nations Garden in Montréal’s Gardens of Light 2024, is a contemporary poetic experience from September 1 to October 31, 2024. Through Indigenous Storytelling – the words and recordings of Innu poet Joséphine Bacon and Métis musician Moe Clark, create an immersive light path that honours Mother Earth.
So Surreal: Behind the Masks

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.
SUGARCANE - MUSKRAT Magazine

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.
YINTAH - MUSKRAT Magazine

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.
Sydney Frances Pascal's 'We Raised Ourselves, Together and Alone at Polygon Gallery '

Sep 13, 2024 | muskratmagazine.com | Shannon Webb-Campbell

On a recent summer trip to North Vancouver, I spent a morning at Polygon Gallery, which is situated on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Not only did I get to see the Patkau Architects striking building in soft light, which nods to the surrounding mountain peaks, I was able to experience Tau Lewis’ Coloratura installation draped over the facade.