Sisters United ~ Empowering Indigenous Women, Children, and Communities. Logo ©Candace English.
Sisters United was started in early 2019 by Candice English and her company, The Farmers Daughter Fibers. As a budding and successful entrepreneur, the Blackfeet artist could no longer turn a blind eye to the effects that historical trauma, drug and alcohol abuse, poverty, and violence are having in both the urban and rural indigenous communities in Montana.
...a grassroots organization that helps create opportunities for Indigenous Women and Children, offer financial support in the ground work to find Missing Indigenous People, and fund essential programs to heal our Indigenous Communities and to keep them safe." Sisters United ~ Who We Are
Photo © Lindsey Fowler. The slippers/socks shown in photo are her design: Red Cedar Slippers.
The design is also in a booklet from The Farmers Daughter Fibers, called Wood and Smoke ~ Collection 1.
I am supporting this incredible initiative or project, developed by an amazing Woman, with many women including fiber artists. Equally of importance to me are the lives of Indigenous Women. There are many similar initiatives and projects. Here is just one of many: Well of Grief.
It is time to knit fall/winter blankets - lovely and comforting woolen things. Maybe something similar, or along the lines of this one, "Crazy Woman" in Mountain Colors. Reds, oranges, turquoise, cream or brown. A red thread hidden, trade beads.
