You Were Here | MOC Day 18
- Description
- Paper: Pink Reptile Designs - Fancy Whites
Torn Paper Shapes: Mommyish - Year In Review Paper Piecing Templates
Wood Scatter: Just Jaimee - Mixed Media Monthly August 2014
Word Art: One Little Bird - Dwell
Tag: Sabrina’s Creations - All the Feels Collab
Stitches: Mommyish - Year in Review
Staples: Sara Gleason - Makers Gonna Make
Fonts: Allegretto Script, Remington Noiseless
Journaling reads:
In 1953, through a joint effort of the Alcan mining company and the Canadian government, the Skins First Nations band was forced to abandon their village and graveyards. Alcan wanted to build a dam to provide power for an aluminum smelter, so they dammed the nearby Nechako River and proceeded to flood the lands where the Skins had lived for generations. The lake that resulted was officially named Skins Lake, and Alcan has since granted permission to the Skins band to hold their annual Culture Camp there. So for a week each year, the Skins return to camp on the shores of their drowned village, strengthening community and passing on the old ways, while a few feet away the homes of their parents and the desecrated graves of their ancestors lie deep beneath the water.
