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ARTIST OF THE MONTH
MARCH 2025
Matthew Provost Naatsikapamatoosin (Two Smudge)
Matthew Provost Naatsikapamatoosin (Two Smudge), is a visual artist from the Piikani and Kainai Nation within the Blackfoot Confederacy. Matthew is an emerging designer that focuses on constructing garments that are thoughtfully created to tell stories through design. Many of his designs incorporate notions of Siksikaitsitapi influence through elements of Niitoyis (Lodges). For him this creates a sense of home in his work as well the ability to share Siksikaitsitapi ways of knowing.
As a visual artist his practice is broad and continues to grow, he has incorporated forms of block printing through ledger art that has helped him learn about specific design elements of the Blackfoot People. Matthew has been designing and creating professionally since 2016. Matthew debuted as a designer in the 2023 Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week, and in 2024 was invited down to share his collection in Santa Fe New Mexico in a collective show with 4KINSHIP. Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week 2024 he completed a 24 piece collection with the support of his family and friends.
Matthew has commissioned pieces for many places and his work has been to Toronto, South Korea, Japan, New York, London, and Mexico City.
Matthew currently practices on the territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh).
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A curated indigenous music playlist featuring artists from Treaty 7 territory and beyond.
Updated monthly by the team at Making Treaty 7.
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Land Acknowledgement
Treaty 7 territory runs from the Sweet Grass Hills along the 49th parallel to the Rocky Mountains that border Alberta and British Columbia. From the vivid turquoise waters of Lake Louise, through the Rocky foothills and north to Red Deer, the territory continues east to the confluence of the Red Deer River and the South Saskatchewan River before curving south through Cypress Hills to connect back to Sweet Grass Hills.
We would like to start by acknowledging the cosmos that gift us each day and our non-human relations - Land Beings, Underground Beings, Water Beings, and Sky Beings - that have lived on and shared this land with us since time immemorial. The mountains, the water, and the plant life share their sacred knowledge and medicines with us so that we may continue to thrive and have a connection to this land.
We acknowledge the ancestors of all Treaty 7 Nations who have lived on this land and their relatives who will continue to live here. This territory is the shared traditional and ancestral home of the Blackfoot Confederacy, consisting of the Piikani, Amksapi Piikani, Siksika, and Kainai Nations, as well as the Tsuu’tina and the Îethka Nakoda Nations, which includes the Chinikii, Bears Paw, and Good Stoney First Nations. We also acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
We appreciate and honour the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are with us today and those who have gone before us. With their guidance and blessings we continue to lift Indigenous voices in Mohkinstsis. As long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the river flows, Making Treaty 7 welcomes you to walk with us.
