My great, great grandmother, Zhaabwe kwe or Shobway was a basket maker. She had to be permitted to leave the reserve under the “Pass” system. It was against the law to leave the segregated encampment known as a reserve prior to 1951, without a Canadian Government issued pass to do so. Zhaabwe was a weaver, of intergenerational knowledge, weaving landscapes into stories contained in her baskets, even if no known living tangible items remain of those baskets today. In the hea

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