By Brittany Hobson A spotlight shines a light on a salvaged infirmary bed from a residential school in southern Alberta that kept Indigenous families apart for almost a century. A bison robe lies on the bed in front of three backlit window frames that were also from the Old Sun Residential School on the Siksika Nation, which operated from 1886 to 1971. The installation piece called “Sick and Tired” by Siksika member and artist Adrian Stimson is being revisited two decades after it first appeared as part of an exhibition memorializing the children removed from their homes and forced to attend the school. A photo of the artwork is part of a new digital book by renowned curator, scholar and Plains Cree artist Gerald McMaster called “Art, Truth and Reconciliation.”… <\/p>\n
By Brittany Hobson A spotlight shines a light on a salvaged infirmary bed from a residential school in southern Alberta that kept Indigenous families apart for almost a century. A bison robe lies on the bed in front of three backlit window frames that were also from the Old Sun Residential School on the Siksika Nation, which operated from 1886 to 1971. The installation piece called “Sick and Tired” by Siksika member and artist Adrian Stimson is being revisited two decades after it first appeared as part of an exhibition memorializing the children removed from their homes and forced to attend the school. A photo of the artwork is part of a new digital book by renowned curator, scholar and Plains Cree artist Gerald McMaster called “Art, Truth and Reconciliation.”... <\/p>\n