Ruth, the Whole Ruth

🎨 Bringing Tsimshian Art to Parks All Over Seattle! 🌲

Wishing I could be with you all as you join for Adawgm Ts’msyen / Tsimshian Stories, a free 3-hour cultural experience in the heart of Seattle's city’s parks. This series brings together Indigenous artists and the community to share in the living traditions of the Northwest Coast.

Gather with community for an afternoon of culture, connection, and community:
Live Weaving Demonstrations – Watch traditional Northwest Coast weaving techniques come to life.



Hands-on Community Projects – Create your own piece of art to take home.
Hourly Storytelling Sessions – Listen to milmalsk (traditional stories).

📍 Find an Event Near You 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM:
May 24 | Myrtle Reservoir Park
June 28 | Pratt Park
July 26 | Ballard Commons Park
August 15 | Pritchard Island Beach
👇 Free and open to everyone!

Łikłgaawksa Dip 'Nüüsm

New Collection Coming to Juneau and Online Orders!

Every piece from Łikłgaawksa Dip 'Nüüsm, We Are Sisters - including each earring in an asymmetrical pair - is a continuation of the unbroken Sisters pattern from the Ravenstail ensemble Gisma̱xsa G̱a̱tgyedm Na Sigidmhanaa'na̱gm, Our Matriarchs Endow Our Strength, which debuted at the Center for Craft's exhibit Archives in Practice.

Our Matriarchs Endow Our Strength, and its continuation through the We Are Sisters collection, is a record of the strength that comes from women, femme, and non-gender conforming folks giving and receiving support in connection with each other.

After nearly five years of vision, revision, dreaming and plans, the first pair of earrings in the collection was hand twined on my couch in O'odham and Piipaash traditional lands while I recovered from a broken ankle and subsequent surgery with support from many sisters.

May all who wear We Are Sisters continue receiving and giving unbroken support.

We are sisters. Łikłgaawksa dip 'nüüsm.
I am healing. We are healing. You can heal with us.
We Are Sisters coned haircuff exclusive to w(r)affle on my facebook artist page.

Limited Big Aunty earrings, triangle drop hoop earrings, and standard haircuffs available for hand delivery in Juneau through Monday, May 4. Also available for US postal delivery.

Big Aunty Earrings
thighspun natural merino warp, hand dyed merino weft, raw silk 2 ½“ silver or gold hoops
500.00

Triangle Drop hoop Earrings
thighspun natural merino warp, hand dyed merino weft, raw silk 1“ gold or white gold hoops
200.00

Haircuffs
Hand dyed merino wool and natural raw silk are hand twined on 100% merino warp to create each hair cuff. Each accompanying hand carved cedar hair stick is rubbed with beeswax.
400.00

Ła Dm Sabaayanu Luudisk Da Ma̱n A̱xłgm Wa̱p Suwilaawksa

next week
I complete
my thirty year
journey
from high school
graduation to
bachelors degree

I going to graduate from college (lit. I am about to finish gathering from the house of learning which lifts up). Ła dm sabaayanu da ma̱n a̱xłgm wa̱p suwilaawksa.
📷 purple honor cords from Jeanette Rankin Foundation hanging over a wooden single bar loom hung with a weaving that includes seven repeats of All Our Ancestors and seven repeats of All Our Children

I am healing. We are healing. You can heal with us.
My academic success reflects both personal determination and extensive community support. I was raised in a family that highly praised education. My grandmother, who was removed from her home for boarding school after eighth grade, ensured that each of her grandchildren felt and understood the positive influence of academic achievement on our lives. My parents showed us how important college education is by completing first-generation degrees while I was in elementary school. I was raised with the question of where I would go to college rather than whether I would go.

While my return to academic studies after lengthy gaps and the subsequent slow progress in my educational history represent times of great personal strength and dedication, my greatest strengths have come from community support at UAS, with Alaska Native learners, and especially from Jeannette Rankin Foundation. My instructors, advisers, classmates, supervisors, coworkers, and all of you exercised patience and care that helped me witness and strengthen my own capacity to succeed. Sm t'oyaxst 'nuusm, I am truly bound to all of you.