Restoring the value of traditionally tanned hides through knowledge sharing

 

 

Remembering, Restory-ing, Reclaiming Indigenous wisdom

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Hide tanning returns purpose and value to deer and moose hides in our homelands

 

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The future of hide tanning relies on protecting the waters and lands of the Great Lakes​

 

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Honouring animal spirits and ancestors who live here

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Our camp pushes back against ongoing Two Spirit erasure

 

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Hide tanning is honourable harvest

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Hide tanning is Ceremony

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Hide tanning decolonizes our hunting ways

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Two-spirit, Non Binary, Trans, Gender-non-conforming community members have been carriers of hide tanning throughout decolonial notions of time and space

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The Gender Binary is an imposed colonial set of rules

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Two Spirit, Trans, Non Binary genders are traditional

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Hunting is not only a "traditional men's role", whereas Hide Tanning is not only a "traditional women's role"

 

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Hide tanning is gender fluid​

 

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Hide tanning happens in the bush, in your backyard, on the land, in rural and urban settings, remote places, public spaces, on NDN lands

 

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Hide tanning is an act of love for the past, present, future

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