High Prairie Traditional Pow Wow

Someone once said,photography is painting with light. That has ailways stuck with me. When I was still a rookie, I used to look at photos in magazines and stu...dy the shadows, angles and even look at the reflections in the eyes to see how many lights were used. When I was in the ICU after surgery for heart issues, I used to look out the window at other buildings and study the light on them at dawn, morning, mid day and evenings. I was fascinated with light . I would try to find that sweet spot at powwows that I could use both flash and natural or arbor lights. I could see the finished image before I took the photo. I used to say I am a lazy artist and that’s why I take photos and not draw or paint. Lol. Just reminiscing about that feather image I took yesterday and the light at that spot at a powwow.

2020 Rock Your Mocs begins today and we're kicking it off by interviewing Jessica Jaylyn Atsye (Laguna Pueblo, NM USA), who founded Rock Your Mocs right here ...in New Mexico! In starting RYM, Ms. Atsye sought to unite Native American, Aboriginal, First Nations, Alaskan Native, and Indigenous peoples globally by encouraging participants to wear their moccasins and share a photo online with the hashtag #RockYourMocs. RYM is produced annually by Melissa Sanchez (Acoma/Laguna Pueblos, NM USA) of emergence productions and is held during National Native American Heritage Month. Take a pic, video or story of your mocs upload to social media. Use the hashtags: #RockYourMocs & #RockYourMocs2020 Please tag IPCC, Emergence Productions and Rock Your Mocs in your FB and IG posts so we can see your mocs! Rock Your Mocs runs through November 21.

Join our *free* webinar November 24 as we launch our Learning Guide for Professionals Working w/ Indigenous Children & Youth to go with our film (Dis)placed: In...digenous Youth and the Child Welfare System. Learn more and register here: https://www.casw-acts.ca//displaced-indigenous-youth-and-c The webinar will include a film screening, a presentation of the learning guide by the film's director, and a panel discussion with Bernadette Iahtail (Creating Hope Society), Julie Mann-Johnson (University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work) and Michelle Breigel (Mount Royal University (Dept. of Child Studies and Social Work). Learning Guide available here: https://fncaringsociety.com//displaced_learning_guide_for_ Learn about the film here: http://www.kingcripproductions.com/displaced.html

The Nampa and District Historical Society and the Nampa and District Museum are excited to announce a temporary art installation at the Museum. From November 4 ...to November 11, 100 metal poppies commissioned from Hell 'N' Back Welding Ltd. will be on display to commemorate 75 years since the end of World War II. During this display admission to the museum will be by donation. The museum has had to close temporarily, but we are hoping to reopen before Remembrance Day. If you would like to purchase a poppy as a keepsake you can. They will be sold for $75, and include a box and a memorial tag which can be personalised. The poppies can be picked up after Remembrance Day. More details on our website www.nampamuseum.ca/shop. Or https://bit.ly/34RwKnG for the full story! #remembranceday #weremember #75YearsAgo #EndOfWWII

Thirty posts for thirty days. Visit our website https://northwestaic.com/portfolio/sister-in-spirit/ #SistersinSpirit2020 #SIS2020 #MMIWG2S #itstartswithus #mmiw #mmiwg #mmip #missingchildren