The installation at Crawford Lake ~ Working Title: The Daughters of Aataentsic, is also supported by the exemplary ally Dr. Kathryn Labelle, Associate Professor – History Department, University of Saskatchewan through the SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council) and the most wonderful Mrs. Brenna Bartley ~ Education & Programs Manager for Conservation Halton ~ at Crawford Lake Conservation Area.

We will be celebrating the publishing of Dr Labelle’s book of the same title, at the opening reception honouring seven significant Wendat and Wyandot Women in our collective herstory.

Regarding the Installation entitled Fire Over Water, I could not do this work without the support and aid of my Wendat and Wyandot co ~ conspirators on Dr. Labelle’s Daughters of Aataentsic Advisory Council, particularly Sallie Cotter Andrews, Deer Clan FaithKeeper, Historian and beautiful human; (Wyandotte Nation, Oklahoma) – and Ms. Linda Sioui, Bear Clan ~ Anthropologist, (Wendake) yet another beautiful human ~ and all of my beloved sisters from across The Wendat Confederacy and in the Homeland in Ontario.

Heartfelt thanks to Richard Zane Smith, Bear Clan ~ Wyandot Speaker and artist/cultural activist (Wyandot Nation of Kansas) and Dr. Craig Kopris, Linguist extraordinaire for all of their stellar assistance. I am so grateful for their kindness and wisdom, which supports me in deep and abiding ways…. culture and language ~ inseparable and necessary! I offer deep gratitude to the Ancestors, the land and waters and all my kin in the natural world ~ and the vast multiverse for my inspiration, direction and spiritual sustenance.

sakahkwah šra:wíʔ
Look up! – (to the stars)…

tižamęh, tiawenhk, thank you!

Catherine Tammaro

People of the Little Turtle
Huron – Wyandotts of Ontario