Spirit: Focus on Indigenous Art, Artists, and Issues: Pat Kane – LENSCRATCH

The project, Here Is Where We Shall Stay by Pat Kane focuses on how Indigenous people in my region are moving towards meaningful self determination by resetting the past. The act of reclaiming culture and identity is ongoing, and my friends here are resilient in a place where symbols and systems of colonization loom large. We can hear colonization when Dene families pray to the Virgin Mary, but we see Indigenization when a young woman holds the hide of a caribou in her arms. In Catholicism we are Children of God, but in the Dene worldview we are One with the Land.