The smell of smoke drifts through the air from a small fire next to the community teepee. Nearby, young students gather in a circle, their singing guided by the hand drum while everyone else bustles around them with teas and food in hand.
They’re prepping moose, beaver and deer hides on the final day of Fort William First Nation’s annual hide tanning camp.
For Jean Marshall, this is good medicine.
This is the fourth year of the hide tanning camp in Fort William, an Ojibway First Nation in northwestern Ontario, as the practice has become more present in the community.
Marshall began her journey of learning
