Weaving kerchiefs between Indigenous and Ukrainian women in Manitoba

Weaving kerchiefs between Indigenous and Ukrainian women in Manitoba

They stood facing each other, laughing the wide-toothy-smiled laugh that only women of a certain age have mastered. "Fiyna, fiyna!" my Baba Mary exclaimed. Her open palms tracing an invisible line around the head of the woman from Peguis First Nation. The woman lifted her clasped-hands from atop her belly and placed them on Baba's shoulders. "Pootiska, babushka!" And they laughed again, standing inside Rivard's General Store in Fisher Branch, Ma…