Beading fosters traditional methods of teaching and learning and enables intergenerational transmissions of pattern and skill. These conversations, interviews, essays, and full-colour reproductions of artwork from expert and emerging artists, academics, and curators from the prairies invite us all into the beading circle.
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- 200
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- Winnipeg, CA
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- Foreword 10
- Who We Are 14
- Introduction 22
- Part I. Conversations 40
- 1. Mentoring and Beading 42
- 2. Mîkisistahêwin (Bead Medicine) 60
- 3. Parallel Lines Move Along Together: A Beaded Line that Connects Me to You 80
- 4. The Power of Gathering: Revisiting the Seeds of Ziigimineshin 100
- 5. Beads in the Blood—Curating Ruth Cuthand’s Art 116
- Part II. Essays 128
- 6. “Until We Bead Again”—The BU Beading Babes and Embodying Lateral Love and Generous Reciprocity 130
- 7. Visiting Kin: Indigenous Flatland Beading Aesthetics 144
- 8. If the Needles Don’t Break and the Thread Doesn’t Tangle: Beading Utopia 172
- Acknowledgements 188
- Spreading the Bead Love Far and Wide . . . 190
- Selected Bibliography 192
