Morgyn McD-L'Hirondelle
@sokawahtik.bsky.social
Mixed Métis Matriarch & Medicine Trail Keeper. Grad of LFMOtipemisiwak '24. Exhibited artist in the #Kooshkopayiw art show for the 31st Métis Nation Ontario's Annual General Assembly.
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I work as a trail guide in Bancroft, Ontario.
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I work as a trail guide in Bancroft, Ontario.
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I am now a vendor on shawishmarket.com/vendor/Nothing-to-Hide and I have created this artist blurb to describe myself and work quickly between events and sites. You can find a small catalogue of the kinds of supplies and works you will normally be seeing in my table bins, but also online too!
We had been having some issues with the payment system of our vendor portal on Shawish but we are happy to report these issues have since been resolved! Back to vending then~
Shawish.com/vendor/Nothing-to-Hide
Shawish.com/vendor/Nothing-to-Hide
December 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
We had been having some issues with the payment system of our vendor portal on Shawish but we are happy to report these issues have since been resolved! Back to vending then~
Shawish.com/vendor/Nothing-to-Hide
Shawish.com/vendor/Nothing-to-Hide
In 2010, while I was at Rocklyn Residential School, I was given wood panels and watercolours to help calm me down after the first few nights.
Those painting sessions were the one peaceful part of an otherwise hellish experience. As we ready to leave Apsley behind its nice to try this art form again.
Those painting sessions were the one peaceful part of an otherwise hellish experience. As we ready to leave Apsley behind its nice to try this art form again.
June 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In 2010, while I was at Rocklyn Residential School, I was given wood panels and watercolours to help calm me down after the first few nights.
Those painting sessions were the one peaceful part of an otherwise hellish experience. As we ready to leave Apsley behind its nice to try this art form again.
Those painting sessions were the one peaceful part of an otherwise hellish experience. As we ready to leave Apsley behind its nice to try this art form again.
I love finding gorgeous ways to represent my root ancestry. This is one page from an ongoing family record book I keep full of info we might need down the line in my family.
June 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I love finding gorgeous ways to represent my root ancestry. This is one page from an ongoing family record book I keep full of info we might need down the line in my family.
Today, the sun burns bolder.
Something is coming.
Something is coming.
June 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Today, the sun burns bolder.
Something is coming.
Something is coming.
I am now a vendor on shawishmarket.com/vendor/Nothing-to-Hide and I have created this artist blurb to describe myself and work quickly between events and sites. You can find a small catalogue of the kinds of supplies and works you will normally be seeing in my table bins, but also online too!
May 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I am now a vendor on shawishmarket.com/vendor/Nothing-to-Hide and I have created this artist blurb to describe myself and work quickly between events and sites. You can find a small catalogue of the kinds of supplies and works you will normally be seeing in my table bins, but also online too!
My home, my beloved river.
Eels Creek wrapped around my Nanas property as if the water itself cradled us in her grasp.
The plants and animals I have harvested on this shore will stay with me until my dying day. I hope to hunt them again one day or be hunted by them in our final resting grounds.
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Eels Creek wrapped around my Nanas property as if the water itself cradled us in her grasp.
The plants and animals I have harvested on this shore will stay with me until my dying day. I hope to hunt them again one day or be hunted by them in our final resting grounds.
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May 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My home, my beloved river.
Eels Creek wrapped around my Nanas property as if the water itself cradled us in her grasp.
The plants and animals I have harvested on this shore will stay with me until my dying day. I hope to hunt them again one day or be hunted by them in our final resting grounds.
🏕🏞🧡
Eels Creek wrapped around my Nanas property as if the water itself cradled us in her grasp.
The plants and animals I have harvested on this shore will stay with me until my dying day. I hope to hunt them again one day or be hunted by them in our final resting grounds.
🏕🏞🧡
My first love was this river.
My Nana is selling it soon...
My hope is someone else will cherish her as I always have.
My Nana is selling it soon...
My hope is someone else will cherish her as I always have.
May 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
My first love was this river.
My Nana is selling it soon...
My hope is someone else will cherish her as I always have.
My Nana is selling it soon...
My hope is someone else will cherish her as I always have.
When I have a load of feathers I havent used for lures or other crafts, I like to make jewlery!Here are a few pieces I made using grouse feathers, epoxy, turkey feathers, a shell and a brass pendant and some wee scraps of fabric to craft wonder.
May 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
When I have a load of feathers I havent used for lures or other crafts, I like to make jewlery!Here are a few pieces I made using grouse feathers, epoxy, turkey feathers, a shell and a brass pendant and some wee scraps of fabric to craft wonder.
Reposted by Morgyn McD-L'Hirondelle
This quote feels more relevant here in 2025 than ever before:
"We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit."
—David Suzuki
"We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit."
—David Suzuki
April 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This quote feels more relevant here in 2025 than ever before:
"We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit."
—David Suzuki
"We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit."
—David Suzuki
From above, soon below lol
April 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
From above, soon below lol
Call me one eye - if ye dare lol
April 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Call me one eye - if ye dare lol
Its more than just nutrient rich compost -- thats for certain. 🥰
Its a way for my partner and I to lay to rest our pregnancy and grow our son with the land at heart. Its terribly difficult to tend the land once its been stripped of its fuel though, so, yes, it is also a gift of thanks to the land.
Its a way for my partner and I to lay to rest our pregnancy and grow our son with the land at heart. Its terribly difficult to tend the land once its been stripped of its fuel though, so, yes, it is also a gift of thanks to the land.
Why specifically lay your placenta to rest in the land? I imagine it’s part of making sure your child feel their spirit is connected with the land, but is there a practical reason like being a great source of nutrients for the earth or something?
April 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Its more than just nutrient rich compost -- thats for certain. 🥰
Its a way for my partner and I to lay to rest our pregnancy and grow our son with the land at heart. Its terribly difficult to tend the land once its been stripped of its fuel though, so, yes, it is also a gift of thanks to the land.
Its a way for my partner and I to lay to rest our pregnancy and grow our son with the land at heart. Its terribly difficult to tend the land once its been stripped of its fuel though, so, yes, it is also a gift of thanks to the land.
The sheer number of fungi here is astonishing and I love them all! Oh I cant wait to learn what kind of mushroom this is!! #fungi #mushrooms #foraging Maybe is it a #Toadstool?
(*do not eat what you cant ID!)
(*do not eat what you cant ID!)
April 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The sheer number of fungi here is astonishing and I love them all! Oh I cant wait to learn what kind of mushroom this is!! #fungi #mushrooms #foraging Maybe is it a #Toadstool?
(*do not eat what you cant ID!)
(*do not eat what you cant ID!)
This is one of Simons favourite places to be and to work and I cant blame him. I laid our placenta to rest here with his help and we now work around it daily while working on hides and knowledge keeping too!
April 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This is one of Simons favourite places to be and to work and I cant blame him. I laid our placenta to rest here with his help and we now work around it daily while working on hides and knowledge keeping too!
This place has every colour, texture and vibrance I could ever hope for. What a wonderland of inspiration...
April 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This place has every colour, texture and vibrance I could ever hope for. What a wonderland of inspiration...
Cedar Hub Camp 🥰🏕
This spot is our smoke tanning pit, scraping zone, quail coop and a number of nicer trails hook up here as well! 15 years of mismanagement left this area full of pits and widow maker trees. Now? Its full of nutrient rich berms and structurally sound dead stands for use as habitats!
This spot is our smoke tanning pit, scraping zone, quail coop and a number of nicer trails hook up here as well! 15 years of mismanagement left this area full of pits and widow maker trees. Now? Its full of nutrient rich berms and structurally sound dead stands for use as habitats!
April 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Cedar Hub Camp 🥰🏕
This spot is our smoke tanning pit, scraping zone, quail coop and a number of nicer trails hook up here as well! 15 years of mismanagement left this area full of pits and widow maker trees. Now? Its full of nutrient rich berms and structurally sound dead stands for use as habitats!
This spot is our smoke tanning pit, scraping zone, quail coop and a number of nicer trails hook up here as well! 15 years of mismanagement left this area full of pits and widow maker trees. Now? Its full of nutrient rich berms and structurally sound dead stands for use as habitats!
Coyote skulls. Two (left) from a farmer in Northern Ontario and the others; Western Labrador.
I love using the teeth in rattles and the skulls for making paint, knife and arrow tips, hooks, paint, buttons and jewlery.
I love using the teeth in rattles and the skulls for making paint, knife and arrow tips, hooks, paint, buttons and jewlery.
April 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Coyote skulls. Two (left) from a farmer in Northern Ontario and the others; Western Labrador.
I love using the teeth in rattles and the skulls for making paint, knife and arrow tips, hooks, paint, buttons and jewlery.
I love using the teeth in rattles and the skulls for making paint, knife and arrow tips, hooks, paint, buttons and jewlery.
The hide is soaking still - hard as rock in some spots but slowly softening. I look forward to my first time stringing up this mooz hide I was gifted.
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April 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The hide is soaking still - hard as rock in some spots but slowly softening. I look forward to my first time stringing up this mooz hide I was gifted.
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Holy this mooz hide is HUGE!
Thank you to Greg Garret and I will find something amazing to do with this piece 🥳🌟
I am thinking rattles, moccasins and drums firstly -- one day a canoe would be amazing.
Thank you to Greg Garret and I will find something amazing to do with this piece 🥳🌟
I am thinking rattles, moccasins and drums firstly -- one day a canoe would be amazing.
April 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Holy this mooz hide is HUGE!
Thank you to Greg Garret and I will find something amazing to do with this piece 🥳🌟
I am thinking rattles, moccasins and drums firstly -- one day a canoe would be amazing.
Thank you to Greg Garret and I will find something amazing to do with this piece 🥳🌟
I am thinking rattles, moccasins and drums firstly -- one day a canoe would be amazing.
We planted the cedar I took off Armor Hill and built a little person garden at its base filled it with crystals.
My dad spent years teaching me under cedars that grew on Armor Hill next to the archive, and now my children will hear our stories here in Cedar Creek under boughs of the same kind.
My dad spent years teaching me under cedars that grew on Armor Hill next to the archive, and now my children will hear our stories here in Cedar Creek under boughs of the same kind.
April 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We planted the cedar I took off Armor Hill and built a little person garden at its base filled it with crystals.
My dad spent years teaching me under cedars that grew on Armor Hill next to the archive, and now my children will hear our stories here in Cedar Creek under boughs of the same kind.
My dad spent years teaching me under cedars that grew on Armor Hill next to the archive, and now my children will hear our stories here in Cedar Creek under boughs of the same kind.
Holy moozes cripes!
I love hide tanning, but right now I gotta find a container big enough to fit the whole thing for soaking before I can string it up for cleaning / stitching up.
I love hide tanning, but right now I gotta find a container big enough to fit the whole thing for soaking before I can string it up for cleaning / stitching up.
April 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Holy moozes cripes!
I love hide tanning, but right now I gotta find a container big enough to fit the whole thing for soaking before I can string it up for cleaning / stitching up.
I love hide tanning, but right now I gotta find a container big enough to fit the whole thing for soaking before I can string it up for cleaning / stitching up.
Spring is in bloom once again!!
April 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Spring is in bloom once again!!
Working on collecting punk wood this week! Our tanning pit will be billowing plumes of the richest stain in no time!! Ahh!! I am so excited for this cherry and how it will darken up some buckskin in particular 🤩
April 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Working on collecting punk wood this week! Our tanning pit will be billowing plumes of the richest stain in no time!! Ahh!! I am so excited for this cherry and how it will darken up some buckskin in particular 🤩
"Whitewashed Rapids" is a song about identity from the perspective of a Metis Nation of Ontario citizen today.
(Mine anyway...)
I sing about ancestry, loss of culture and ebbing pride in our many nations across Turtle Island. That its because of colonial politics, genocide and ongoing disconnection.
(Mine anyway...)
I sing about ancestry, loss of culture and ebbing pride in our many nations across Turtle Island. That its because of colonial politics, genocide and ongoing disconnection.
April 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"Whitewashed Rapids" is a song about identity from the perspective of a Metis Nation of Ontario citizen today.
(Mine anyway...)
I sing about ancestry, loss of culture and ebbing pride in our many nations across Turtle Island. That its because of colonial politics, genocide and ongoing disconnection.
(Mine anyway...)
I sing about ancestry, loss of culture and ebbing pride in our many nations across Turtle Island. That its because of colonial politics, genocide and ongoing disconnection.
I have been making medicine bags for the past 22 years and I am my family medicine bag maker. I take pride in my work. It shows how much I have learned and what family and teachers I have learned from and who taught them.
My work is an example of their work as much as my childrens will be of mine...
My work is an example of their work as much as my childrens will be of mine...
March 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I have been making medicine bags for the past 22 years and I am my family medicine bag maker. I take pride in my work. It shows how much I have learned and what family and teachers I have learned from and who taught them.
My work is an example of their work as much as my childrens will be of mine...
My work is an example of their work as much as my childrens will be of mine...