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From sustainable beauty and skincare to wearable art to healing medicines—Indigenous entrepreneurs across Canada are delivering products designed to honour you from the inside and out. ⁣This Indigenous Peoples Day, celebrate by supporting Indigenous-owned and operated business. Every purchase not only provides you with the best in sustainable products, but uplift Indigenous communities in the process.⁣ 1. Cheekbone Beauty Cheekbone Beauty is an Indigenous-owned and founded, digitally-native, Canadian cosmetics company established in 2016 by Jennifer Harper. Based out of St. Catharines, Ontario, Cheekbone Beauty is known for creating high quality, cruelty-free beauty products such as liquid lipsticks and complexion products, including contour and highlight palettes. Keeping in line with her Anishinaabe roots, Jenn’s Cheekbone Beauty has a less-waste line of lipsticks with zero-waste goals for 2023. Cheekbone’s aim is to not only make a difference in the lives of Indigenous youth through donations addressing the educational funding gap but to create a space in the beauty industry where Indigenous youth feel represented and seen. 2. Sisters Sage Sisters Sage handcrafts beautiful modern self-care and wellness products using traditional Indigenous ingredients. Artisan soaps, bath bombs, salves and smokeless smudge honours ancestral teachings with sage, cedar, sweetgrass, lavender and more. As Indigenous women, Sisters Sage are loud and proud, with love and positivity being the main ingredients in every spray, soap and bath bomb. 3. Brenda MacIntyre Brenda MacIntyre – Medicine Song Woman is a Juno Award-winning artist and motivational speaker offering healing/reading sessions, oracle cards and medicine songs. She works with healing energy, spiritual downloads and music to help women whose lives are shifting to create a path of love, hope and possibility by finding their voice. Her music and oracle cards were designed to help women love and trust themselves, stop holding back, and express the gifts and power they carry. 4. Ay Lelum The sisters of Ay Lelum The Good House of Coast Salish Design create award-winning wearable fine art featured on runways around the world. The Ay Lelum sisters design and produce clothing and fabric patterns featuring Traditional Coast Salish artwork by their father William Good and brother W. Joel Good of the Snuneymuxw First Nation Hereditary Chief Family, while being mentored by their mother Sandra Moorhouse-Good, who had the very first Coast Salish clothing line in the 1990’s. 5. Lofttan Jewellery April Mitchell-Boudreau is a Turtle Clan Mohawk with roots at Six Nations. Passionate about awakening the Creator in others, April invented a jewellery system that does just that. Lofttan offers expertly designed wearable art made to engage your inner designer. These versatile earrings, bracelets and necklaces can be worn as one or layered, long, or short. Founder April Mitchell-Boudreau's ingenious clasps empower you to change the entire look. April is also a creativity facilitator, fundraising for scholarships for Indigenous students in the Arts by teaching all ages the beauty of beading. She believes strongly in the power of art to heal. 6. DeMontigny Boutique Gallery Angela DeMontigny is an internationally-renowned Indigenous Canadian designer, creating custom made and ready-to-wear, all-leather clothing collections, bold accessories and statement jewellery collections. DeMontigny's original collections showcase the most elegant examples of her Indigenous heritage (Cree/Metis) including accessories, lifestyle and wellness products made from nature. Her original, hand-poured soy candles are known for creating a sacred space, infused with essential oils from Indigenous plant medicines. The essential self-care kits are filled with organic cedar leaves that cleanse your home and yourself, said to banish fear and improve courage during difficult times. 7. Skwalwen Botanicals Skwalwen is an Indigenous beauty and skincare line celebrating ancestral plant relationships, incorporating respectfully harvested botanicals, organic oils, nourishing plant-derived butters and steam-distilled essential oils. All products are handmade in small batches in the Canadian Pacific Northwest + Indigenous Owned and Operated on the Unceded Territories of the Skwxẃu7mesh (Squamish) First Nation. 8. The Yukon Soaps Company The Yukon Soaps Company is Indigenous-owned and operated by Joella Hogan. The company is all about a cleaner you and cleaner environment. Yukon's soaps are made from scratch just like grandmother’s cookies — they are all unique, authentic and handcrafted in Mayo, Yukon, Canada. The soaps are inspired by the land and Joella’s travels around the world, and each purchase is a vote cast for natural, handcrafted and locally-made products. 9. MYC Design As an Indigenous-owned company, MYC Design builds a vibrant brand that makes a significant impact. All jewellery is handmade in Canada using AA stones such as jade, coral, rose quartz and moonstone. MYC Design will be donating 10% of our proceeds to The Kids Help Phone. 10. Inuk360 Inuk360 is a world-renowned Master Caribou Hair Tufter, Multi-Textile, Traditional & Contemporary Artist and Designer. Inuk is Inuvialuit and a self-taught caribou hair tufter. She loves to learn and teach traditional arts and crafts. 11. Satya Organic Skin Care More than a moisturizer, Satya Organic is a natural skin protectant balm that protests and relieves all kinds of stressed-out skin. The Satya formula was developed by Ojibwe mother Patrice Mousseau for her baby girl when she couldn't find a clean, effective alternative to steroid creams. Today, Satya helps thousands of children and adults around the world overcome all kinds of skin conditions using simple, natural ingredients.

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We provide every student at the Ottawa Catholic School Board with meaningful opportunities to learn about Indigenous peoples and participate in Indigenous-centred activities. If your child self-identifies as First Nation, Métis, or Inuit, we also provide further culturally-relevant programming to honour your child's Indigenous ancestry and support their academic success. We acknowledge We respectfully acknowledge

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Winnipeg artist Jackie Traverse and her publisher Fernwood Publishing have released six free printable colouring sheets from her colouring books Sacred Feminine and IKWE for a relaxing stay-at-home activity for kids and adults. The beautiful images feature Ojibwe Florals, Courage from the Seven Teachings, selections “Honouring Women, Life Givers, and Water Protectors,” and more. Click...

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Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression, diabetes, and other chronic health conditions brought on by genocide and colonial control. With passionate logic and chillingly clear prose, author and educator Suzanne Methot uses history, human development, and her own and others’ stories to trace the roots of Indigenous cultural dislocation and community breakdown in an original and provocative examination of the long-term effects of colonization. But all is not lost. Methot also shows how we can come back from this with Indigenous ways of knowing lighting the way. 2019. Paperback.

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Ngu-Nha Neutral Brown Canvas Art Print - Bursting with life, this Aboriginal artwork by Wiradjuri artist, Amanda Hinkelmann, enriches any space with its vibrant design and intricate circular shapes and flowing lines. Using traditional Indigenous dot painting techniques and a soft palette of muted brown and beige shades, this piece creates a comforting and inviting atmosphere. Indigenous Aboriginal peoples have a unique, Elder-given knowledge of country, allowing us to sense changes in weather, surroundings, vegetation, and animal movements. This deep connection to country is felt rather than explained. This artwork abstractly represents country, symbolising our knowledge and ability to read, live from, and care for the land - a language unknown to others. Urban Road is committed to investing a stream of ongoing financial support back to our artist community. For every artwork sold, a percentage of the sale price goes directly back to the artist. This versatile collection of Indigenous art by renowned Wiradjuri artist, Amanda Hinkelmann, features an expressive neutral palette in multiple colourways, including muted brown, blue, green, and pink tones. Perfect for celebrating NAIDOC Week 2024, these Aboriginal art pieces bring warmth, comfort, and a touch of elegance to your space. Support First Nations art and let your walls tell stories rich in culture and heritage.   Disclaimer: Colours of Urban Road products may vary due to device display differences, monitor settings, inherent product variations, lighting conditions, and screen calibration. While we strive for accuracy, slight variations may occur. For any concerns, contact our customer support. Your satisfaction is our priority.   STRETCHED CANVAS Urban Road's stretched canvas fine art prints are professionally printed on polycotton artist canvas, using archival inks and then stretched and gallery wrapped. This means the image is stretched around a 38mm frame to create a seamless, museum-quality finish. All stretched and box framed art prints arrive ready to hang. SHADOW BOX FRAMES We also offer the option to add a shadow box frame to your Urban Road canvas art print. A little different from a traditional framed print, the canvas sits within the box frame with a 5mm gap, creating a sophisticated shadow effect between the frame and the canvas. Our solid timber box frame mouldings are 10mm wide, and 55mm deep, and add approximately 40mm to the length and height of the listed canvas size. ROLLED CANVAS ART At Urban Road, we also offer you the option to purchase your canvas art print unframed to allow you to have it framed your own way. As with our stretched and box framed canvas products, our rolled canvas prints are professionally printed on durable, museum-quality, matte coated polycotton canvas and made to order. Our rolled canvas products are printed to the listed stretched size, and come with an additional 45mm mirrored edge plus another 60mm white border to allow for gallery wrapping.

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