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Indigenous Storytelling with Joely Bigeagle-Kequahtooway

Kind to Grade 2

Kind to Grade 2. In Indigenous cultures, oral storytelling is a traditional method of sharing knowledge from generation to generation. Experience Indigenous stories with Joely Bigeagle-Kequahtooway.

This program is being presented by Regina Public Library, in partnership with Regina Public Schools and Regina Catholic Schools to celebrate Saskatchewan Aboriginal Storytelling Month.

The program will be conducted through Zoom. At least one hour prior to the program, we will send you an email with the Zoom meeting ID. Please ensure that you have Zoom installed on your device or computer. If you don't have a library card, please visit https://www.reginalibrary.ca/register to register for one.

Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway is an inter-disciplinary land-based buffalo artist.  She is a fashion and textile designer, visual artist, beader, storyteller and co-founder of the Buffalo People Arts Institute.  She is Nakota/Cree/Saulteaux from the White Bear First Nations - signatory to Treaty 4.  She has degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Calgary and Mathematics from the First Nations University of Canada.  She obtained her Master of Fine Arts Studio Arts degree from the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico in May 2024.  She loves to incorporate mathematics and geometry in her artwork and is inspired by the perfect symmetry in nature.  Her mantra envelopes everything Tatanga (Buffalo) as it connects her to ancestral memories, the land and is the manifestational glue that keeps her world together.

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