Cover
Contents
Foreword
Who We Are
Introduction
Part I. Conversations
1. Mentoring and Beading
2. Mîkisistahêwin (Bead Medicine)
3. Parallel Lines Move Along Together: A Beaded Line that Connects Me to You
4. The Power of Gathering: Revisiting the Seeds of Ziigimineshin
5. Beads in the Blood—Curating Ruth Cuthand’s Art
Part II. Essays
6. “Until We Bead Again”—The BU Beading Babes and Embodying Lateral Love and Generous Reciprocity
7. Visiting Kin: Indigenous Flatland Beading Aesthetics
8. If the Needles Don’t Break and the Thread Doesn’t Tangle: Beading Utopia
Acknowledgements
Spreading the Bead Love Far and Wide . . .
Selected Bibliography