PakwewaangBack – Embodying the Survivance of a Stolen Village
Sunday, November 15
10:30am PakwewaangBack – Embodying the Survivance of a Stolen Village
PakwewaangBack is an invitation to embody an Indigenous future by holding the past and present in their fullnesses. It is an offering shaped to deepen, expand, and add dimension to the understanding of both the history of the 1923 flooding of the village of Pakwewaang and the continued harm it inflicts on our communities today. Come learn by moving energy through you, and carry Pakwewaang with you into the future.
Jennifer, an Anishinaabe and Taino transmedia artist, is a builder of Indigenous futurist spacetime, creating worlds with photography, illustration, installation, beads, voice, and short fiction. Enrolled in the Lac Courte Oreilles band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and the Higuayagua Taíno of the Caribbean, she draws deeply from personal and relational experience, regarding art as a toolkit for hope, resistance, medicine, and measured decomposition. Their writing can be found in Chapter House Journal, Odaawaa Zaaga’iganiing Review, Manufactured Ecosystems, and Nimagirashic (I Love You). Their resurge/alight/burrow installation can be found on settler maps in eau claire, wi at the chippewa valley museum.