Using art to illustrate the art of First Nation storytelling (fwd link)

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Using art to illustrate the art of First Nation storytelling

BY LEISHA GREBINSKI, SPECIAL TO THE LEADER-POST OCTOBER 26, 2010

For Robin Brass, stories never end.

"I am very interested in different narrative threads and this idea
that nothing ever completely finishes or ends and all things
continue," she says.

The Regina-based performance artist, who is a member of the
Peepeekisis First Nation, draws on the Nahkawe language (a Saulteaux
dialect) to articulate how stories change through history and move
between generations.

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