To Honor & Comfort Native Quilting Traditions (An Educational Curriculum)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shawn Termin
Description
Guide aimed at middle year students is divided into four sections: Strengthening Community, Design Tells a Story, Expressions of Honor, and Origins of Native Quilting. Discusses eight individual quilters (Aboriginal and Hawaiian): Mary Bighouse (Osage), Sheree "Peachy" Bonaparte (Mohawk), Alice Olsen Williams (Anishinabe), Nancy Crone Naranjo (Eastern Cherokee), Bernyce Courtney (Wasco-Tlingit), Harriet Soong (Native Hawaiian), Ollie Napesni (Rosebud Lakota), and Lula Red Cloud (Ogala Lakota).
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 1997, p. 144
Description
1995 Margaret Laurence lecture at Trent University by the artist and quilt maker Alice Olsen Williams. The version given here has been adapted, revised and edited.