“The exhibition acknowledges the displacement of their family, along with many other Indigenous peoples who had to leave their territories behind, and the ways through which connections to one’s community and ancestors might be reforged from a distance.”

Exhibition: “Migrating Seeds,” by Ginnifer Menominee, Gallery 101, February – March 2023.

Keywords: exhibition, curatorial practice, contemporary, art, migration, displacement, movement, Indigenous, communities, uprooted, ancestral, homeland, land, home, traditional, territory, Anishinaabe, Anishinaabek, Algonquin, Odawa, Menominee, Potawatomi, Ojibwe,  modern, borders, settler-colonialism, war, 1812, America, Britain, United Kingdom, refuge, survival, adversity, dispossession, violence, erasure, grief, pain, mourning, separation, coexistence, culture, belonging, healing, resistance, defiance, endurance, accountability, care, Manomin, wild, rice, seeds, grain, staple, harvest, cultivation, reciprocal, symbiotic, sustenance, identity, nations, connection, relationship, feasts, ceremonies, sculpture, installation, photography, prints, beading, Wisconsin, United States, Turtle Island, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Image: Ginnifer Menominee, Shelby Lisk, Gallery 101