Medicine Bundle

Weaving together family narratives and current thoughts on the pandemic the ethics of representation and the nature of the sacred Thirza Cuthand discusses a medicine bundle which was used to heal the artists greatgreatgrandfather from a Gatling gunshot wound in 1885 and her grandfather from the Spanish flu in 1918 In this film Cuthand reflects on the ways that the bear cub spirit contained within the sinceburied bundle has continued to protect her family from the trauma and diseases brought on by colonization