Potlatch People Mildred Valley Thornton JOURNAL TASHA SPILLETT-SUMNER is an Inninewak

TASHA SPILLETT-SUMNER is an Inninewak (Cree) and Trinidadian award-winning poet and author who is also working on her doctoral degree in Indigenous land–based education

So good you’ll want to roll in it

For thousands of years these people developed the tools and technologies to fell the giant cedars that grew in profusion

delighting astronauts at the International Space Station four times (in 1996

professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Manitoba

Potlatch People Mildred Valley Thornton JOURNAL TASHA SPILLETT-SUMNER is an InninewakBorn of a large farming family in the small Ontario town of Dresden at the end of the nineteenth century, the young Mildred Stinson soon demonstrated to her parents that she was not destined to remain on the farm. They recognized her artistic abilities and sent her to study at Olivet College in Michigan, from which she graduated in 1910. She continued her studies at the Ontario School of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago before the lure of Canada's