Indigenous voices to be heard through art at Niagara Health – ThoroldToday.ca
Dec. 18, 2024
Initiative a part of health system’s reconciliation effort
Alicia-Lynn Morin sees a little bit of herself in the three works chosen by Niagara Health to be displayed in mental health outpatient units at its hospitals in St. Catharines, Niagara Falls and Welland.
“People who know me, I like to roar, I like to make a little bit of a sound once in a while,” Morin said after unveiling her works, three separate depictions of bears.
The bears are representative of the Three Sisters, corn, bean and squash, which stand for strength, power and wisdom, Morin said. The bears she added, also symbolize courage, strength, resourcefulness, wisdom and intuition, something that Indigenous people have had to summon for hundreds of years of colonization.
