DENVER — Porcupine quills, Elk teeth, Dentalium shells, and feathers are Indigenous art materials that predate the European introduction of colorful beads. Of these ancient materials, quills can be ...

Judie Acquin is the Wabanaki Arts Studio co-ordinator in Fredericton. She thanks the porcupine for its life using tobacco and water, then gathers the quills to be boiled before her students use them ...

In the early 1600s, French colonizers in what’s now northern Maine and Atlantic Canada wrote admiringly of the native Micmacs’ ornamented fur and leather apparel — robes, bracelets, belts, and ...

“To me, it's important,” Bush said. “It's a way of me reclaiming what was taken from us.” Bush has not only reconnected to her heritage, but she’s also become an award-winning artist. Porcupine quills ...

More than 90 works of porcupine quill art are on display until the end of the year in Isabella County, the first of its kind to be fully bilingual. On display at the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe’s ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. Christine Toulouse remembers holding a warm cup of tea as her mother and grandmother first taught her how to pluck a porcupine. The ...

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Eaten by wolves, found dead on a trail, run over by a truck: these are the ways porcupines gift me their quills. Traditional harvesting of quills entails tossing a blanket onto the back of the ...

After moving to Cleveland in 2019, Beth Bush was feeling culturally disconnected from her Potawatomi tribe in Michigan. It prompted her to return to her practice of Indigenous beading and learn the ...