Indigenous Art: Flower Garden on Turtle Island : waabigwanii-gitigaan 🇨🇦

This is an acrylic painting I made of a flower garden on Turtle Island.

It is a study of patterns and colours.

A garden - gitigaan ni a field, a garden, a farm

A flower garden - s aabigwanii-gitigaan ni a flower garden

Source: https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/search?utf8=✓&q=Garden&commit=Search&type=english

Vocabulary Words

Bezhig (One, 1)
Makadewaa (Black)
Manidoominens (Bead)
Manidoominensikaan (Bead work)
Miskwaa (Red)
Niizh (Two, 2)
Niswi (Three, 3)
Ozaawaa (Yellow)
Waabishkaa (White)

This is the pencil sketch I made before the painting..

I am a Métis youth taking a course on Indigenous Art and History in Canada. I will share my work here along with some of the thoughts and ideas I have while creating these works. I will also share some of the Ojibwe and Algonquin language we are learning.