This exhibition was also supported by Toronto Art Council and several very generous volunteers and helpers. The installation ran from June 18, 2022 until late Autumn.

We also celebrated it the publishing of Dr. Labelle’s book The Daughters of Aataensic, at the opening reception honouring seven significant Wendat and Wyandot Women in our collective herstory.

Regarding Fire Over Water, I could not have done this work without the support and aid of my Wendat and Wyandot co ~ conspirators on Dr. Labelle’s Daughters of Aataentsic Advisory Council, particularly Sallie Cotter Andrews, Deer Clan FaithKeeper, Historian and beautiful human; (Wyandotte Nation, Oklahoma) – and Ms. Linda Sioui, Bear Clan ~ Anthropologist, (Wendat Nation) yet another beautiful human ~ and all of my beloved sisters from across The Wendat Confederacy and in the Homeland in Ontario.

Heartfelt thanks to Richard Zane Smith, Bear Clan ~ Wyandot Nation Of Kansas: Speaker and artist/cultural activist and Dr. Craig Kopris, Linguist extraordinaire, for their stellar assistance.

I am so grateful for their kindness and wisdom, which supports me in deep and abiding ways…. culture and language ~ inseparable and necessary! I offer deep gratitude to the Ancestors, the lands and waters and all my kin in the natural world ~ and the vast multiverse for my inspiration, direction and spiritual sustenance.

sakahkwah šra:wíʔ
Look up! – (to the stars)…

People of the Little Turtle
Huron – Wyandotts of Ontario