Free Public Lecture: Jingle Dress - Cheryl Suggashie

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Preregistration is recommended: https://thunderbaymuseum1.wildapricot.org/event-6262147

This will be an in-person event that is free to view. The lecture will be broadcast live via ZOOM for those who cannot attend in person and recorded and then to the Museum's YouTube at a later date.

Description from Cheryl Suggashie:

I have done Jingle Dress workshops, dance presentations, sewing workshops in several First Nations communities, local Indigenous agencies, as well as school settings. I attended Indigenous Fashion Arts Festival in Toronto twice as a vendor, participated in a runway show for Tournament of Hope and other local grassroots fashion shows. I’ve been told to do my best to dance when requested, and share the teachings, gifts and stories, as the Jingle Dress is the Healing dress.

Speaker Bio:

Hello, my name is Cheryl Suggashie and I am from Pikangikum First Nation, a semi isolated community located in Northwestern ON. I have been a Jingle Dress Dancer since 2011. I grew up not knowing about my culture and pow wow’s. I attended one pow wow in Whitefish Bay ON, when I was a child. I saw what it looked like an “army of Jingle Dress dancers,” ever since I have always wanted to dance Jingle Dress. It was not until I attended Algoma University, in Sault Ste. Marie, that I gained the teachings and stories about the Jingle Dress, the healing dress. I have several teachers to help me. I learned how to sew, held a ceremony and feasted for our Jingle Dresses. We danced for the very first time and had our “welcoming into the pow wow circle” at Gathering at the Rapids Pow Wow. The location was a former Residential School, so the survivors were happy that we brought culture and ceremonies back into their former school.

I did my Masters in Social Justice, at LU. I did practicum with the students at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School. I taught students to make their own healing dress, in honor of those who passed away attending the school.

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Free Museum Admission during the event

Refreshments will be available

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Parking

The Thunder Bay Museum has a free parking lot on the East side of the building, but there are only 16 spaces. On-street parking and other lots nearby are available.

This lecture session is part of the Society's long tradition of holding free public lectures. From September to March, talks on a wide range of topics are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Thunder Bay Museum.

The 2024-2025 Thunder Bay Museum lecture series is sponsored by the Lakehead University Department of History.

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• Registration Link thunderbaymuseum1.wildapricot.org

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Thunder Bay Museum

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The Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society was created in 1908 to preserve and interpret the history of Northwestern Ontario through lectures, publications, the erection of monuments and plaques, and the preservation of documents.

Among the Society’s many accomplishments in its early years, was the publication of a long series of valuable historical reports and the construction of a monument to the original Fort William fur trading post at the foot of McTavish Street in Thunder Bay. It was unveiled in 1916 by our founding father, Peter McKellar.

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The Society’s mandate has always been to serve both the city and district of Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, and to preserve the history of the entire region. Today an active, efficient organization has assumed responsibilities far beyond those undertaken by its founders. The Society operates as a museum, an archives, and a historical society, and offers a wide range of programs and services in each area. Feel free to contact us for further information about any of our programs, services, or memberships.