about the artist
Yasakw (Shelly Samuels)
Meet Yasakw (Shelly Samuels), Haida, Kwakwaka’wakw, the artist behind Ravens’ Resilience, the design for our 2025 Orange Shirt. Belonging to the Haida matrilineal society through the Raven, Three Fin Killer Whale, and Dogfish clans, and to the Thunderbird and Grizzly Bear clans on the Kwakwaka’wakw side, Yasakw lives on Haida Gwaii with family, creating formline art daily while exploring new artistic forms.
About Wanuskewin collective
Our shops are a not-for-profit organization that have been apart of the Wanuskewin Heritage Park for over 30 years now. With our earnings going back into the park and other organizations such as ones involved in survivors of Residential schools as well as families of Missing Murdered Indigenous Women; we are fortunate and proud to be apart of Treaty 6 Territory.
