?amak?is ktunaxa (Homeland for all Ktunaxa): Gift of the Creator

This painting is a scene from withIn the traditional territory of the Ktunaxa First Nation in British Columbia, Canada. It depicts the southern slopes of the Steeples Range in the Rocky Mountains and the Kootenay River flowing south, just north of the British Columbia/Montana border. A couple of Ktunaxa teepees are located on the bank of the river and a Ktunaxa paddler is approaching in a sturgeon-nosed canoe, the traditional style of canoe constructed by the Ktunaxa. This painting was made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the closing of the Indian Residential School that was located on the St Mary’s Indian Reserve near Cranbrook, British Colum This painting is a scene from withIn the traditional territory of the Ktunaxa First Nation in British Columbia, Canada. It depicts the southern slopes of the Steeples Range in the Rocky Mountains and the Kootenay River flowing south, just north of the British Columbia/Montana border. A couple of Ktunaxa teepees are located on the bank of the river and a Ktunaxa paddler is approaching in a sturgeon-nosed canoe, the traditional style of canoe constructed by the Ktunaxa. This painting was made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the closing of the Indian Residential School that was located on the St Mary’s Indian Reserve near Cranbrook, British Columbia.