ReMatriate Collective facts for kids

The ReMatriate Collective is a group of Indigenous women from Western and Northern Canada. They started in 2015. This collective uses social media to connect Indigenous people, especially women. They do this through art projects and creative activities.

What ReMatriate Does

Art and Exhibitions

The ReMatriate Collective has shown their art in different places.

In 2018, they were part of an art show called Beginning with the Seventies: Collective Acts. This show was at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia. Artist Dana Claxton used pictures of the collective's members. She placed these images onto an old photo. This old photo showed a protest from 1978 by the Service, Office and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWUC). They were protesting against a restaurant called Muckamuck.

In 2019, the ReMatriate Collective helped organize another art show. It was called qaʔ yəxʷ - water honours us: Womxn and Waterways. This show was at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art. It focused on the special connection between women and water. This connection is important in the matriarchal societies of the Northwest Coast. The show also highlighted the roles of women who give birth, heal others, and help with childbirth.

Events

In 2015, the ReMatriate Collective took part in the Adäka Cultural Festival. This festival happened in Whitehorse, Yukon.