Rebecca Belmore, Ayum-ee-aawach-oomona-mowan:

Procession to the meadow (Speaking to their Mother), 1991.

Belmore, With 13 Native speakers, 27 july 1991:

Ayum-ee-aawach-oomona-mowan: Speaking to their Mother

"This artwork was my response to what is now 

referred to in Canadian history as the "Oka Crisis".  

During the summer of 1990, many protests were mounted 

in support of the Mohawk Nation of Kanesatake 

in their struggle to maintain their territory.  

This object was taken into many First Nation communities -

reservation, rural, and urban.  I was particularly 

interested in locating the Aboriginal voice on the land.  

Asking people to address the land directly 

was an attempt to hear political protest and poetic action."