Résidence tannage des peaux et parflèche

Janine Windolph (Atikamekw/Woodland Cree) is a Saskatchewan-based filmmaker, video editor, educator, fine-craft artist, and storyteller. She is the Director of Indigenous Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Prior, Janine was the Curator of Community Engagement at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan. She has her Master of Fine Arts: Interdisciplinary in Indigenous Fine Art and Media Production.

Janine was a co-producer for RIIS Media Project Inc wherein she co-directed RIIS from Amnesia: Recovering the Lost Legacies (feature-length documentary) that features the history of the Regina Indian Industrial School (RIIS). 

Janine’s filmography includes roles as producer, director, narrator, writer and/or editor.  She directed Stories Are In Our Bones, Lifegivers: Honoring Our Elders and Children, The Land of Rock and Gold, Ayapiyâhk ôma niyanân “Only us, we are here at home,”

Janine is working with Buffalo Mountain Banff; a community group to Buffalo Mountain, and providing production support to the Buffalo Mountain Video Project that is part of her sons’ homeschooling.

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 is currently in the Master of Fine Arts program at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 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.

Originally from the Treay 4 area, Zagime Anishnabek, Lorne Kequahtooway is dedicated to sharing and preserving his culture with others in Saskatchewan. Lorne is co-founder of Buffalo Peoples Arts Institute where he currently teaches cultural awareness through storytelling and community engagement around an interactive buffalo hide-tanning experience.

Daryl Kootenay is a Traditional singer, dancer, artist, & facilitator. Daryl is married to his beautiful wife Ariel Crawler and together they have 4 beautiful children (Nakoda, Marazu, Hashke, & Wagiya) from the Stoney Nakoda Nation of Treaty 7 in southern Alberta. Daryl is also a part of the Dine (Navajo) Nation in New Mexico from his father’s heritage. 

After graduating high school, Daryl travelled globally to volunteer his time in countries such as Africa, Peru, and Nicaragua, working in cross-cultural community- based programs with Canada World Youth (CWY) for many years. He was then a delegate for his nation and CWY at the World Conference of Indigenous Peoples (Sept. 2014), and The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Rights (UNPFII 2017), at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. 

Daryl successfully continues to lead and work with intergenerational indigenous leaders, activists and researchers in the journey to attend and effectively participate at the UNPFII. This work continues to bring Daryl around the globe to work and advocate for indigenous rights and recognition. He has the tremendous honour of being awarded the Governor General’s “Sovereignty’s Medal" in June 2017 for his work. Daryl, alongside his wife Ariel, were both recognized as the Alberta's Council for Global Cooperation's Top 30 under 30 in 2019. 

Daryl has actively volunteered in his community of Mini Thni (formerly Morley), Alberta, in a variety of roles which include co-founding the Stoney Nakoda Youth Council in 2014 and Co-Directing the Intergenerational Mini Rhrpa Collective. 

Daryl's more recent roles locally and globally are Co-Convener for the Min Ki Wakan World Indigenous Peoples Summit, Co-Founder of Bald Eagle Consultation, Faculty member at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Indigenous Leadership, former North American Focal Point for the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus to the United Nations, a Co-Founder and served as Co- Executive Director for the National Youth Charity known as the Howl Experience for 3 years. Most recently, Daryl completed the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Indigenous Fellowship program 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Lucy Yakeleya was born and raised into the traditional ways in Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, as well as Colville Lake, NT.  She spent several years in Residential School in Inuvik, NT. Lucy now lives and works in Yellowknife, NT. The distinct shapes, colours, patterns and small beads used in Lucy’s artwork reflect the influences she picked up from her family and from the Sahtu region. This is a family practice, as most of Lucy’s siblings are also involved in the arts in the Sahtu to this day. On her journey as an artist, Lucy sold her artwork to make extra income, which then gradually turned into a fulfilling hobby. While Lucy sells her art, she mainly loves to create pieces for herself and for her family. Through the years, Lucy has shared her skills with students in schools and has passed on the tradition of hide tanning at the Dene Nahjo camp. In 2019, Lucy shared her knowledge and skills as a faculty for Urban Moose Hide Tanning at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

Suzan Marie is a Decesuline/Cree woman born and raised in the Northwest Territories. As a residential school survivor, Suzan has experienced firsthand the loss of culture and language that deeply impacted her life. In response, she is reclaiming her culture through being from a long line of traditional artisans. A traditional teacher keeping ancient Dene skills alive for over thirty years, Suzan co-authored two books, Whadoo tehmi / Long-ago people’s packsack Dene babiche bags: tradition and revival and Dene spruce root basketry / Dene ts’ukegáí tene rahesi: revival of a tradition, also referred to as the Dene suitcase and Dene pots and pans.

Suzan has taught across Canada and the US to all ages through what she calls reconciliation healing. She works with moose hair, porcupine quills, moose and caribou hooves, dentalium shell, angler, spruce-root, babiche bags, bone, beads, and embroidery using contemporary and traditional techniques. She sews earrings, caribou and moosehide mitts, and various styles of moccasins. In 2002, Suzan was the first recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee Medal for her commitment to keeping culture alive. A harvester of traditional materials and medicines, Suzan lives and breathes her culture. Suzan is also a mom and Setsune to her grandson Carver.

Tansi. I am from the Treaty 4 lands of the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation. I was raised with the values of a family that fished, trapped and hunted from the land, and started learning hands-on from the age of 7 yrs. At the age of 19, in University I discovered traditional Indigenous spiritual ceremony and the world of powwow. I've been gifted to have been adopted and taught by families from various nations; Dakota, Lakota, Cheyenne, Plains Cree, etc. I've been beading for over 34 years to date, and have many examples scattered across North America. Recently I have concentrated on mastering the skills of Brain-tanning deer, elk, moose and buffalo hides. I also sing n dance powwow since 1989. I've seen an evolution as I've entered my mid 50s and continue to learn from all I meet.

Hello! My name is Wade BigEagle. I am from White Bear First Nations in Saskatchewan, Canada. I was raised by my mother Joely BigEagle, she took me to many places to experience my culture while growing up. I have been to many pow-wows and ceremonies that made me appreciate who I am and understand where my people come from. While my mother was learning the ways of the Buffalo, I only helped out a bit at first, I was too focused on my own journey. It was only until years later I had realized that her and my father Lorne Kequahtooway needed help with their Buffalo workshops. It has now been over two years since I have started helping, I have had many good experiences and lessons learned. I am very excited to continue this path and share my knowledge with my community and to those who want to learn. I am very proud doing what I do and extremely grateful for my mother, it is only the beginning of the new journey I am on.