Crowsnest Museum hosts art and craft market for Indigenous History Month – Lethbridge | 24CA News

“To be able to be welcomed in a different community and show our art is amazing,” stated Blaine Burgoyne, Indigenous View photographer.

For Burgoyne, images is remedy. He explains how he’s in a position to roam his reserve freely and reveal his insider standpoint to the surface world.

“I can capture all these beautiful plants, species, animals, waterways and lands that we have out there,” all whereas connecting to his tradition. “I picture what it was like for the ancestors and all that walking through there and really appreciating everything out there. I want to do the same and I want to show the people what we look at on reserve and the things that we cherish and honour.”

One picture on Burgoyne’s artwork sale desk holds a particular place for him. It’s his first pair of moccasins from when he was a child with an eagle feather discovered by his brother close to their residence.

“To me, that photo represents me as an Indigenous person, you know, that’s my culture, those are my first moccasins, the feather represents our culture in all different ways,” stated Burgoyne.

He’s displaying his work amongst 14 different artists at an Indigenous craft market in Coleman, Alta., on the Crowsnest Museum & Archives.

“Our traditional territory reaches this far but I’ve just never seen an outlet for the Indigenous out this way,” stated Burgoyne.

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The market is for Indigenous History Month within the Crowsnest Pass neighborhood. The space has an extended Indigenous historical past that hasn’t been nicely represented within the surrounding museums, in accordance with Chris Fairman, Crowsnest Museum operations lead.

“There was a deficit that we definitely needed to address if we wanted to represent the full history of Pass and all the peoples of the Pass. So that’s why we figured the market would be a good stepping stone,” stated Fairman.

Denise Louis with Legends Logos out of Creston, B.C., stated being invited to those markets is an instance of reconciliation in motion.

“People are recognizing that it takes more than reading about history and understanding, it also is about going forward hand in hand trying to make a good future,” stated Louis.

The market runs 10 a.m. to five p.m. by means of Sunday on the Crowsnest Museum & Archives in Coleman.

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