Earrings: Copper Canoe Woman

Available from Yubəč when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

My name is ƛ̓áqvas gḷ́w̓aqs, which loosely translates to ‘ Copper Canoe Woman .’ My Goomishwa (English name) is Vina Brown. I grew up in unceded territory in so-called Bella Bella, British Columbia, and live on the Lummi reservation in Washington State; I’m a member of the Haíłzaqv (Heiltsuk) Nation and am Nuučaan̓uɫ (Nootka) on my maternal side. I am a weaver and beader. I first learned to bead, weave, and sew from my aunties and grandmothers and spent a lot of time immersed in the renaissanc