Wes Fine Day: Perspectives from a Story Teller > Video

Wes Fine Day: Perspectives from a Story Teller > Video

James Henderson’s artwork provides us with an opportunity to reflect upon the history of Indigenous people and the history of the land, specifically kâ-têpwêwi-sipiy (the Calling River, known to settlers as the Qu’Appelle River and as the Qu’Appelle Valley). The classical narrative of mistasiniy (the story of Grandfather Buffalo) and paskwa-mostos awâsis (Buffalo Boy), shared with us by Wes Fine Day, marks kâ-têpwêwi-sipiy in Indigenous memory. The story of mistasiniy also threads people to the land through kinship ties and allows us to examine the paintings through an Indigenous lens. Visitors can access the complete oral histories, and interviews within the exhibition space.

Wes Fine Day video excerpt