2" Vinyl Die-Cut Sticker, Weatherproof

Ples is the word for Pigeon in L'nuisi (Mi'kmaw language). 

Pigeons are strong and resilient, like us!

Tepknu'set is a street art and indigenous literacy project that incorporates Indigenous history, knowledges and language into the urban periphery.

Tepknu'set means Moon in the Mi'kmawisimk language.

Give this sticker to a friend or stick it on some of your favourite stuff to show off your Indigenous pride and bring our languages back!

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All About The Tepknu'set Project:

I have illustrated three city animals, a squirrel, raccoon and pigeon.

These illustrations became part of an urban-Indigenous street art project in 2017 where I affixed wheat pastes and stickers in the city to create dialogue about land, language, consent and interruption. I also did this to cope with difficult feelings I was having about land injustice at the time!

These animals are often viewed as nuisances and pests to the general public. I have chosen these animals to portray my project and interrogate what Duncan Campbell Scott called "The Indian Problem", something that everybody sees, but nobody wants to. Indigenous resilience reminds us of a colonial failure that no one was prepared for. It also reminds that the problem isn't going away.

I had some distinct intentions with these animals:

to reference spirit animal totems with an urban twist, to create community through cultural representation in the public sphere, to interrupt colonial spaces with Indigenous words and to see identity and culture represented with pride.

The TRC recommendations link restoration of language to cultural healing and reconciliation. In Mareike Neuhaus’ Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, asserts that there is a major epistemological difference in the language structure of indigenous languages, which are primarily verb-based and holophrastic, meaning, that individual words serve as a clause, or story. This means that language must be included within any act of cultural restoration, lest a major source of cultural information be missing.

This project has been inspired by Susan Blight’s Ogima Mikana placename project and Leanne Simpson’s book of poetry Islands of Decolonial Love. I seek to expand the works to include site-specific text based works that incorporate Toronto’s urban, colonial and cultural history into attractive and informative posters. These posters may include modest illustration, but primarily will include site, region and street-specific historical references.