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First Nations beads can be traced back to over 10,000 years ago when most beads were “made of shell, pearl, bone, teeth, stone, and fossil stems” (Aboriginal Perspectives U Regina). Christi Belcourt, a Michif visual artist from Manito Sahkahigan (Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta), explains that “beading is not simply decorating material goods ...
Travis Klemp (Métis) illustrates how “tattooing has been a prominent aspect of identity for many different Indigenous Peoples” since “long before European contact on Turtle Island” in his article: “Reconciliation Through Reclaimed Ink” (Destination Indigenous).
Sometime in the early 1900s the “Jingle Dress Dance began with the northern tribe Ojibwa” and later became well known in “Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ontario” (Sacred Springs Powwow). According to the story, the first Jingle dress was “seen in a dream” when a “medicine man’s granddaughter grew sick”, during the dream “his spirit guides ...
