WATER

SEE?

THINK?

WONDER?

What's the story here?

https://blog.cartoonmovement.com/2017/03/10-cartoons-for-world-water-day.html

10 Cartoons for World Water DayWithout water, there is no life. Some see access to fresh, clean water as a fundamental human right, a right disputed by companies (such as Nestle) who sell bottled water and see water as a scarce resource and therefore profitable. An undisputed fact is that fresh water is getting scarcer, and many future conflicts will be fought over access to water. For World Water Day, we've collected 10 of our favorite water cartoons.

WATER RELEASING CEREMONY

Day 1. Go to the water. Put down your tobacco and call on in the Water Spirit to come and help you. Introduce yourself by your name or Spirit Name if you have one. Tell the Water Spirit why you are there and begin to talk about your problems from the past.

Day 2. Go to the water. Put down your tobacco. Introduce yourself and call in the Water Spirit. Continue talking about your problems from the past and what hurts you.

Day 3. Go to the water. Put down your tobacco. Introduce yourself and call in the Water Spirit. Continue talking about your hurts and suffering. On this day, something will catch your eye like a stone, feather, or stick. Pick this item up and take it home with you as a helper to help you with your problems until no longer needed.

Day 4. Go to the water. Put down your tobacco. Introduce yourself and call in the Water Spirit. Continue talking about your problems as far back into the past as you can remember. Once you have finished walk away and don’t look back. Leave your problems behind with the Water Spirit to take care of.

Note: The Water Releasing Ceremony need not be done in 4 consecutive days.

Teaching by Jake Pine (Baa) of Garden River First Nation

LOOK up "political water art"

Bill Reid gallery about ReMatriate’s exhibition “womxn and waterways,”

The artworks in “womxn and waterways” recognize that water connects us all and, in the face of resource extraction that threatens the wellbeing of all life, that Indigenous women are taking up their roles as caretakers of the water.

Carrielynn Victor’s installation A woman’s moon, & remembering sacred connections to waterways (2019) reflects on the knowledge that Stó:lō women carry about moon time and its connections to water—both ancestrally and colonially influenced. With her artwork, Veronica Rose Waechter honours that all life comes from women and water, as told in many Indigenous creation stories.

For local First Nations like Tsawwassen, water is a major feature of the land and of livelihood, but the exhibit also aims to reclaim its connection to the women who are made of water, live from the water, and are fundamental to life like water. In these pieces, water represents a reconnection to the land and summoning the power of ancestors to overcome today’s oppressions against Indigenous women.

Water is an essential ingredient for human life - it connects us geographically, culturally, and socially while fueling our bodies and spirits.

Artists:

Richelle Bear Hat (Blackfoot/Cree)

Krystle Coughlin (Selkirk)

Tiffany Creyke (Tahltan)

Tsēmā Igharas (Tahltan)

Lindsay Katsitsakataste Delaronde (Mohawk)

Denver Lynxleg (Anishinaabe)

Alison Marks (Tlingit)

Dionne Paul (Nuxalk/Sechelt)

Angela Marie Schenstead (nêhiyaw)

Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena)

Marika Echachis Swan (Nuu-chah-nulth)

Carrielynn Victor (Sto:lo)

Veronica Rose Waechter (Gitxsan)

Water Keeper, Audrey Siegl (Musqueam)

They all explore water as a crucial element of creation, its historical uses for survival, and contemporary over-consumption as a threat to sensitive coastal ecosystems.

Issues faced by Indigenous People... #1. WATER CRISIS

Canada’s First Nations face systemic water crisis

Canada is violating its international human rights obligations by failing to provide adequate, sanitary water supplies to First Nations communities, several of which are facing a “broader systemic crisis”