Picking Up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket (hardcover) clothing you will receive the download

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A manifesto that calls on us to re-imagine the museum as a place to embrace global interconnectedness

and it is a feeling that connects us all

who or what waits here for me

carvings by elders Dempsey Bob (Tahltan-Tlingit) and Beau Dick (Kwakwaka'wakw)

Picking Up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket (hardcover) clothing you will receive the downloadPicking Up the Pieces tells the story of the making of the Witness Blanket, a living work of art conceived and created by Indigenous artist Carey Newman. It includes hundreds of items collected from residential schools across Canada, everything from bricks, photos and letters to hockey skates, dolls and braids. Every object tells a story. Carey takes the reader on a journey from the initial idea behind the Witness Blanket to the challenges in making