Photo: Marvin Kosea
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Frayed Feathers, is a spoken word poetry novel I’ve been working on for sometime. It’s a book centred around the 5 stages of grief when dealing with intergenerational trauma.
Lakeisha Marie
Tansi, my name is Lakeisha Marie. I am a 23 year old spoken word poet, artist and dancer.
Contact Info
Email : lakeeysha1@gmail.com
The Traditional Paths Society is a grassroots volunteer organization that has been serving the community of Grande Prairie Alberta for the past ten years.
The vision of the society is: “To Encourage the Traditional and Creative Expression of First Peoples’ Culture within our Community.”
To achieve its vision the society has been offering Traditional Pow Wow Dance Practice Nights once a week since 2014 to all age groups. Since its inception some of the original dancers have grown up into teenagers and are now in the position to teach new dancers!
The society also offers a weekly beading and sewing group in which members can learn to bead and do other traditional crafts and gain fellowship with one another. The Traditional Paths Society offers Ceremony and other cultural activities as it is able. The biggest thing the society is proud of is the fact that it has helped to create and maintain meaningful relationships within our community that help support each other.
We are also so proud of the dancers of our pow wow dance group as they actively help to carve out visual space for Indigenous Artisans within the Peace Region area.