Hide Land - Support Indigenous Sovereignty

It’s been 4 years since my neighbours called fish and wildlife (F&W) for having a “2 grizzly bears” on so called Canada Day.  We had 2 moose hides in our yard for a few months curing and they decided to call on this day out of all days.  It was hard facing discrimination based on my cultural practices & my neighbours trying to enforce F&W to get us to stop our ways of knowing.  Sometimes your own backyard isn’t safe.  

Fast forward to 2025, I have dreamed of a place where we can practice our traditional ways of knowing without being discriminated against, a place where we feel safe, a place where we’re not policed, a place where we are not watched with being judged. 

I dreamed of a gathering place where we can be free, a place where we’re immersed on the land, with the our plant & 4•legged relatives, this place is what I call the Hide land.  

From the sale of all of my items from my website will be going to the hide land.  As you can imagine everything is financially costly.  We have bare land and transforming into a beautiful space where we can gather and work on hides.  We’re currently working on setting up a camp from scratch.  Our goal is to have a tipi which is around $8,700 + insulated wall tent $3,500 + smoke house to smoke hides.  Our main focus is getting the tipi up and ready to use. This will be used for anyone who we share this space with. We’re so excited to see how the hide land is transforming into something that pays homage to our ancestors.  Our ancestors prayed for our generations to be here today and makes me emotional how far this dream has come. 

Thank you for supporting cultural preservation and making the Hide Land a dream coming into fruition.  This is the picture below of the beautiful land currently going to make a hide dream right there 🥹🤎 

If one of the items do not relate to you, feel free to donate an item & I will donate these all to Ermineskin Women’s Shelter.  Or feel free to buy a virtual coffee in my linktree (located in bio on Instagram, FB or Tik Tok).  If you can’t purchase on my website, no worries a like or share would be more appreciated.