Exploring our connection to food.
It’s been more than a decade since I began to take back my identity. A displaced Cree-Scotswoman, I am proud to bring bannock to your dinner table with my ready to make bannock and fry bread mixes.
MEET OUR FOUNDER
Felicia Dewar
Founder, nêhiyaw-iskwêw
Born and raised off-reserve in Treaty 8 Territory in Northern Alberta, I am a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. My father was a Scottish-Englishman and my mother is a ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ nêhiyaw-iskwêw (Cree woman).
She is also a survivor of residential schools and the ‘60s Scoop which means she and ultimately my sisters and I, did not grow up in our culture or with our family. In fact, in northern Alberta in the ‘80s and ‘90s (and much of the rest of Canada), it was not considered a “good thing” to be a native, so the settler side of our family tried to convince my elder sister and I that we were “white” which was good, not “brown” which was shameful.
Over the last decade I have been rejecting those teachings, reconnecting with my mother and her family, learning about my culture and language and discovering who I truly am.
miskamâsowin - the act of finding yourself
Charlotte Ross
Language keeper, PhD student