Sister Bear Designs, which was created in 2013, is now located in Thunder Bay's Goods and Co. Market
Amid one of the most difficult times of Kathleen Sawdo’s life, when she lodged a human rights complaint about her identity as an Indigenous person against the police services out in Alberta, where she lived at the time, her father would tell her to come back home to what you know.Sawdo went back to her hometown — Thunder Bay — she picked up the beads, and the needle, and started beading.
Sawdo started creating these unique Indigenous handmade items, including beaded jewellery and other traditional handmade Indigenous wearable art. The creations honour the family’s connection to the land. Sawdo said growing up, the bear clan sisters learned a lot from her elders — how to be in the bush, how to forage and harvest, how to fish.
“If you don't see us you forget about us,” she said. “And sometimes they forget we matter if they don't see us, and sometimes they forget how much we contribute to the city if we're not in those spaces where you don't typically see Indigenous people.” “I didn't realize something so simple in my mind, and listening to the words of my dad, go back to what you know, would have such a huge impact on my family.”
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