Following My Spirit Home: A Collection of Paintings and Stories

Following My Spirit Home: A Collection of Paintings and StoriesA trip to Alaska and an epiphany at Mendenhall Glacier led artist Sam Zimmerman Zhaawanoogiizhik to return home to family and his Ojibwe culture, a journey captured in paintings and stories. When Sam Zimmerman decided to rededicate his energy and focus to painting in the late 2010s, he found himself drawn to the stories of his family and Ojibwe community. He wanted to capture these stories in images as well as words, and he began working with an

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Original Man and his grandmother

" which explores the ways in which typical notions about romantic love and marriage are put to the test

" such as the title tale in which a young girl believes in the power of the "roofwalker" spirit to make her dreams come true

When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school

and artist narratives

Thirty years ago

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He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people