About the artist
Wakeah Jhane
Wakeah Jhane is an Indigenous ledger artist and mother of two daughters whose work honors the enduring strength, love, memory, and beauty of Indigenous life. She descends from the Penatuka and Yaparuka bands of the Numunuu (Comanche), as well as the Gáuigú (Kiowa), GWY (Cherokee) and Amskapi Piikani (Blackfeet).
Her practice continues the historic Plains ledger art tradition and is deeply connected to her own lineage. Today, Wakeah works on authentic antique ledger paper from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming these historical documents into contemporary expressions of Indigenous presence and cultural continuity.
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.
