Jaune Quick-to-See Smith : Memory Map FNCR 2025 Children Teased about her Indigenous heritage

Teased about her Indigenous heritage as a young girl

Thinking only of her family the girl plunged on through the night

Violet has to leave her loving home living with her grandma and attend a foreign institution run by nuns who insist on only speaking English and attending chapel daily

Back at Grandma’s

Celia is a seer who — despite being convinced she’s a little “off” — must heal her village with the assistance of her sister

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith : Memory Map FNCR 2025 Children Teased about her Indigenous heritageFive decades of work by groundbreaking Indigenous artist Jaune Quick to See Smith. Throughout her career as artist, activist, and educator, Jaune Quick to See Smith (b. 1940) has forged a personal yet accessible visual language she uses to address environmental destruction, war, genocide, and the misreading of the past. An enrolled Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Smith cleverly deploys elements of abstraction, neo