1:00pm - 2:00pm
Experience the Gallery through the trusted lens of Jewel Pierre-Roscelli, Dakota Knowledge Keeper. Jewel’s tour is centered around “Mitakuye Owasin”, Dakota for “all my relations” and will highlight the interconnectedness of all beings with a focus on Wo’ohoda, which means “respect”
Indigenous Language Tours@WAG-Qaumajuq are not just for Indigenous people, they are for anyone who wants to learn about the importance of Indigenous worldviews and art history.
Tours happen monthly in the gallery spaces and will be led by Indigenous knowledge and language keepers. Stay tuned for more dates!
August Tour led by
Jewel Pierre-Roscelli
Jewel Pierre-Roscelli is a proud Dakota and Anishinaabe woman with family roots in Sioux Valley Dakota Nation and Roseau River Anishinaabe First Nation. She is recognized for her ability to foster respectful, sustainable partnerships that advance community empowerment and strengthen economic reconciliation across Turtle Island.
Her career reflects excellence, creativity, and a lifelong commitment to amplifying Indigenous voices, championing social justice, and dismantling colonial barriers.
The initiative is an in-person version of Indigenous Language Sovereignty: Article 13 Experience, where you can experience the Gallery virtually, hearing from the Language Keepers themselves in videos.
This important step in decolonizing WAG-Qaumajuq and supports the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Article 13:
Indigenous Peoples have the right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and to designate and retain their own names for communities, places and persons.
Language is also mentioned in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action, Number 14i:
Aboriginal languages are a fundamental and valued element of Canadian culture and society, and there is an urgency to preserve them.
Ages 18-24 enjoy 50% off admission until September 7, 2026 through the Canada Strong Pass supported by the Government of Canada. Youth under 18 always get in for free. Learn more
