#indigenous bead work

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Nadia Myre | Indian Act. 1999 and 2002

Nadia Myre’s ‘Indian Act’ addresses the realities of colonization and the broken promises and contracts made between the Indigenous people and the Settlers.

'Indian Act’ is made up of all 56 pages of the Federal Government’s Indian Act mounted on cloth and sewn over with red and white glass beads. Each word is replaced with white beads sewn into the document; the red beads replace the negative space.