I confronted my misconceptions about being Indigenous by embracing beadwork – CBC

Mar 24, 2023
It has taught me that while I am enough, I can always be a part of something more

I was sitting with my cousin Tara around her kitchen island, watching as she cleaned up around me, during a winter day. I was trying to thread a needle — my eyes squinting, my hands shaking.

Once accomplished, I grinned at her and asked, somewhat sheepishly, “Do you ever feel, like, real sacred when you do beadwork?”

We stared at each other for a beat and then burst into loud, aunty-like laughter.

“I know exactly what you mean,” she said, wiping tears from her eyes.

When I looked back at my beadwork, I swore softly as my thread had gotten loose and I had to start all over.

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