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DESCRIPTION:Donna Cranmer will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on\nTues
 day\, October 22\, at 12:15 pm. Her talk\, entitled “Kas’ida’asa\nsan’s Ga
 lga’lis/The Path of our Ancestors\,” will discuss\nthe utility of museum c
 ollections for weaving and\nother contemporary First Nations traditions.\n
 \nCranmer\nwrites: “Visiting museum collections is one of the most inspiri
 ng visits a\ntraditional weaver can make. The old pieces can teach so much
 . There was a time\nin the history of our people that our Potlatch and cul
 tural ways were outlawed\, our old\npeople went to jail for practising our
  traditions\, and many of the\nteachings stopped for a time. Our people be
 lieve that the Creator gave us\nour Gwayilelas\, our way of\ndoing things\
 , and these ways are a continuation of a time when our supernatural\nances
 tors were here on this earth.\n\nThe\nsongs\, dances\, and stories carried
  on even during the dark years of the\nPotlatch prohibition. The art of wo
 rking with cedar bark was only\nremembered by a few people. Visiting colle
 ctions today teaches us ways that\ncedar bark regalia was put together. Re
 cently my partner Anthony Hunt and I\nvisited the neckring collection in t
 he Royal BC Museum and\nlearned anew some of the old ways our ancestors cr
 eated these\nimportant pieces of regalia. Today\, we continue to follow in
  the\nfootprints of our ancestors.”Donna Cranmer is a master weaver of\nin
 ternational renown. She is 'Namgis from Alert Bay\, BC\, of the Kwakwaka'w
 akw.\nHer great\, great\, great grandmother Mary Ebbetts-Hunt was a Tlingi
 t woman from\nTongass Island\, Alaska\, and was a Chilkat weaver. Her dire
 ct family lineage\ngives her the right to weave Chilkat and to dance these
  beautiful pieces in\npotlaches today. Donna received her BEd from Simon F
 raser University and her\nMEd from the University of Victoria.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: *Kas’ida’asa san’s Galga’lis* / The Path of o
 ur Ancestors
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