Art
Power couple Alannah Jewel and Luke Swinson – incredible artists making big waves from local murals, community engagement and education projects to international branding campaigns.
https://morningstardesigns.ca & https://lukeswinsonart.com
Jennifer Podemski and her work in art, film, TV, and the Shine Network: The Shine Network Institute is an Indigenous owned and operated not-for-profit organization offering professional development, advocacy, consulting, and mentorship for Indigenous women in the film, television and media sector.
https://www.shinenetwork.ca/team-members/jennifer-podemski/ & https://lukeswinsonart.com
Robbie Robertson
The family of Canadian musician Robbie Robertson requested after his death that donations be made to Six Nations “to support a new Woodland Cultural Centre.” The centre is dedicated to the preservation of Indigenous language and culture. https://www.sixnations.ca/
Shoshona’s sister, Sarain Fox
Sarain Fox is a Canadian Anishinaabe activist, broadcaster and filmmaker. She is most noted for her 2020 documentary film Inendi,[2] for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Host or Interviewer in a News or Information Program or Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021.
www.sarainfox.com
https://www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/shorts/inendi
https://video.vice.com/en_ca/show/rise
Chef Johl Whiteduck & Food Sovereignty
Chef Johl Whiteduck Ringuette is Anishnawbe and Algonquin. he was born in North Bay, Ontario and his grandmother is from Nippissing First Nation. His clan is Mink clan. Johl was raised on wild game, fishing and seasonal berry-picks and cooking over the fire. Chef Johl is the owner of NishDish Marketeria and Catering, which specializes in Anishnawbe cuisine since 2005. He is one of Tkaronto’s leading First Nations food sovereigntists and has dedicated his life to identifying, sourcing, relearning and reclaiming what the traditional Anishnawbe diet is.
https://www.nishdish.com
https://ojibiikaan.com
https://www.miinikaan.com
Joy Harjo
https://www.joyharjo.com
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is winner of Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.
Shoshona is a co-founder of the International Indigenous Music Summit
https://www.indigenousmusicsummit.com/